Thursday, February 12, 2009

Liberia (1847 - 1980)

During 1847 - 1980, the state of Liberia was governed by the small minority of African - American colonists and their offsprings,together called Americo - liberians. These 5% of the total population suppressed large majority of 95% of the Liberian population.
The Americo -Liberians had been cut off from their African cultural inheritance and adopted Euro - American cultural and formed a new class with a separate physico-economic and religios identity.They were of mixed African and European ancestry and therefore possessed a lighter - skinned than the indegenous blacks.They had absorbed beliefs in the religious superiority of Protestant Christianity. They created a social and material facsimile of American society in Liberia maintaining their English speaking vocabulary.
Joseph
Jenkins
Roberts,
Governer
and first
president
between
1840 and
1850.



In Liberia's early years, the Americo- Liberian settlers periodically encoutered stiff and sometimes violent oppositions from citizens in the new Republic. A list of the Governers are as follows :
!847-56, Presidency Roberts-I
1856-64, Presidency Benson
1864-68, presidency Warner
1868-70, Presidency Payne-I
1870-71, ,, Roye
1871-72, ,, Smith
1872-76, ,, Roberts-II
1876-78, ,, Payne-II
1878-83, ,, Garner
1883-84, ,, Russel
1884-92, ,, Johnson
1892-96, ,, Cheeseman
1896-1900, ,, Coleman



1900-04, ,, Gibson
1904-1912, ,, A Barclay
1912-1920, ,, Howard
World war I (1914-18)

Indegenous
liberian
Woman
in 1910

1920-30, Presidency King
1930-44, ,, E. barclay
World War II (1939-45)
President
Edwin
Barclay(rt)
and US
President
Roosevelt
in
World
WarII
Jan.1943
1944-1971, ,, Tubman
1971-80 ,, Tolbert.
!944-71, Presiency
President Tolbert and US President Jimmy
Carter(Left)

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