Jan 28, 2025 · Liberia, a country along the coast of western Africa, is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only Black state in Africa never subjected to colonial rule and is Africa’s oldest republic. Its capital city is Monrovia, named after U.S. President James Monroe.

Dec 8, 2020 · History of Liberia, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Liberia. The country is located in western Africa along the Atlantic coast. Liberia’s terrain ranges from the low and sandy coastal plains to rolling hills and dissected plateau further inland.

Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of color from the United States. The emigration of African Americans, both freeborn and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society (ACS).

(Nelson) See the Map of Liberia with Monrovia. Slave states in North America, increasingly interested in getting rid of their free African-American populations, encouraged the formation of colonization societies.

This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers.

Aug 9, 2017 · Last month, the West African nation of Liberia marked 170 years of independence. The country has a unique and complex history, with a pivotal era of its founding as a colony captured in maps. The Geography and Map Division preserves a collection of twenty maps of Liberia produced in the mid-19th century, covering several decades …

Apr 24, 2024 · The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire. Liberia, which means "Land of the Free," was founded as an independent nation for free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans.

The maps that are held in this collection show the area that were first settled, as well as sovereign indigenous areas or areas that they may have ceded, and some buildings that settlers used.

Here you can find online selected information about the geography, inhabitants, government, economy and history of Liberia. Included are selected statistics, an overview map and the detailed map of Liberia.

Oct 1, 2024 · Liberia's history began with the settlement of freed African American slaves in the early nineteenth century. The American colonizing society facilitated this migration, which led to the founding of Monrovia in 1822.