The nation of Liberia began in part as a dream of American Abolitionists.
The American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States was dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/liberia
https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Colonization-Society
https://www.aaihs.org/the-american-colonization-society-200-years-of-the-colonizing-trick/
Paul Cuffee’s Dream
Economic Survival Against the Odds: 1880-1914
How One Historian Located Liberia’s Elusive Founding Document
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/liberias-founding-document-located-180980339/
The 1930’s: Photographs of the Country
https://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/paul-julien-in-liberia-in-1932-part-ii/
Liberia in World War II
https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/wwii-weapons-in-liberia/
The First Liberian Civil War was one of Africa’s bloodiest civil conflicts in the post-independence era
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/first-liberian-civil-war-1989-1996/
Liberians Celebrate 175th Independence Anniversary
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-chinese-workers-strike/
Edward J. Roye, Early President, from Ohio to Africa
https://aaregistry.org/story/edward-roye-politician-and-businessman/
https://liberiapastandpresent.org/EJRoye.htm
Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01710-4.html
A Modern Liberian Dream
https://frontpageafricaonline.com/opinion/letters-comments/the-liberian-dream/
Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience
Grand Challenge: Valuing World Cultures
ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism
Title: Portrait of Edward James Roye, American-Liberian political figure Credit: public domain from Wikipedia
