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)