Liberia : Liberia...and the slaves who returned to africa...

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Emigrants to Liberia

• Notes of events which transpired at Cape Palmas, in reference to the difficulties between the American settlers and the surrounding native tribes, in December, 1843.
• Persons that have removed to the colony at their own charge, and those that have obtained their discharge from trading vessels, desiring to reside in the colony.
• Statement of Crime in the Colony of Liberia, 1828 – 1843
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of Caldwell
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of New Georgia
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of Monrovia
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of Edina
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of Sinoe
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of Bassa Cove
• Census of the Colony of Liberia, September 1843 – Town of Bexley
• Ship Elizabeth’s Company, arrived at Sierra Leone March 9, 1820
• Brig Nautilus, arrived at Sierra Leone March 8, 1821
• Brig Strong’s Company, arrived at Monrovia August 8, 1822
• Oswego’s Company, arrived at Monrovia May 24, 1823
• Schooner Fidelity’s Company, arrived at Monrovia July 29, 1823
• Ship Cyrus’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 13, 1824
• Brig Hunter’s Company, arrived at Monrovia March 13, 1825
• Brig Vine’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 6, 1826
• Ship Indian Chief’s Company, arrived at Monrovia March 22, 1826
• Brig Doris’s Company, arrived at Monrovia August 11, 1827
• Ship Norfolk’s Company, arrived at Monrovia July 10, 1827
• Brig Doris’s Company, arrived at Monrovia January 15, 1828
• United States Ship Ontario, arrived at Monrovia December, 1828
• Schooner Randolph, arrived at Monrovia July 17, 1828
• Brig Nautilus’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 19, 1828
• Ship Harriet’s Company, arrived at Monrovia March 24, 1829
• Brig Liberia’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 17, 1830
• Brig Montgomery’s Company, arrived at Monrovia June, 1830
• Brig Heroine’s Company, arrived at Monrovia March 4, 1830
• Ship Carolinian’s Company, arrived at Monrovia December 4, 1830
• Brig Valador’s Company, arrived at Monrovia January 12, 1831
• Schooner Reapers’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 18, 1831
• Brig Criterion’s Company, arrived at Monrovia October 30, 1831
• Schooner Orion’s Company, arrived at Monrovia December 10, 1831
• Ship James Perkins’s Company, arrived at Monrovia January 14, 1832
• Brig American’s Company, arrived at Monrovia September 16, 1832
• Ship Hercules’s Company, arrived at Monrovia January 16, 1833
• Ship Lafayette’s Company, arrived at Monrovia January 20, 1833
• Brig Roanoke’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 17, 1833
• Ship Jupiter’s Company, arrived at Monrovia March 8, 1833
• Schooner Margaret Mercer’s Company, arrived at Monrovia, 1833
• Brig Ajax’s Company, arrived at Monrovia July 11, 1833
• Brig American’s Company, arrived at Monrovia June 26, 1833
• Ship Jupiter’s Company, arrived at Monrovia January 1, 1834
• Brig Argus’s Company, arrived at Monrovia April, 1834
• Ship Ninus’s Company, arrived at December 9, 1834
• Brig Rover’s Company, arrived at Monrovia April, 1835
• Ship Louisiana’s Company, arrived at Monrovia April 9, 1835
• Brig Independence’s Company, arrived at Bassa Cove
• Ship Indiana’s Company, arrived at Monrovia August 19, 1835
• Schooner Swift’s Company, arrived at Monrovia July, 1836
• Brig Luna’s Company, arrived at Bassa Cove August, 1836
• Brig Roundout’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 4, 1837
• Schooner Oriental’s Company, arrived at Monrovia July 10, 1837
• Schooner Charlotte Harper’s Company, arrived at Bassa Cove, 1838
• Barque Marine’s Company, arrived at Bassa Cove, February, 1838
• Ship Emperor’s Company, arrived at Monrovia February 12, 1838
• Brig Mail’s Company, arrived at Sinoe July 9, 1838
• Ship Saluda’s Company, arrived at Monrovia April 1, 1839
• Ship Saluda’s Company, arrived at Monrovia September, 1839
• Ship Saluda’s Company, arrived at Bassa Cove March 30, 1840
• Brig Rudolph Groning’s Company, arrived at Monrovia March, 1841
• Schooner Regulus’s Company, arrived at Monrovia June 1841
• Barque Union’s Company, arrived at Monrovia July 1, 1841
• Ship Saluda’s Company, arrived at Monrovia December 1841
• Ship Maripose’s Company, arrived at Monrovia August 21, 1842
• Barque Globe’s Company, arrived at Monrovia December 31, 1843

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History Of Liberia: A Time Line


1815-1817 | 1820-1847 | 1847-1871 | 1900-1997

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/liberia.html

...1827 - Slave states in North America, increasingly interested in getting rid of their free African-American populations, encouraged the formation of colonization societies. These groups organized themselves independently of the ACS and founded their own colonies in Liberia for transplanting free African-Americans. Some of the "volunteers" were emancipated only if they agreed to emigrate. The Maryland State Colonization Society established its colony in Cape Palmas, Liberia.Virginia and Mississippi also established Liberian colonies for former slaves and free blacks.

See "The tenth annual report (African-American Perspectives) of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States: with an appendix." and named after the state. Virginia and Mississippi also founded colonies for former slaves in Liberia. (Liebenow, 17; Nelson, 15).

1838- The colonies established by the Virginia Colonization Society, the Quaker Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, and the American Colonization Society merged as the Commonwealth of Liberia and claimed control over all settlements between Cestos River and Cape Mount. The Commonwealth adopted a new constitution and a newly-appointed governor in 1839. See African-American Mosaic: Liberia.

Former Virginian Joseph Jenkins Roberts (America's First Look into the Camera), a trader and successful military commander, was named the first lieutenant governor and became the first African-American governor of the colony after the appointed governor died in office (1841).

Cape Palmas
1842- The Mississippi settlement at the mouth of the Sinoe River joined the commonwealth. (Nelson, 16; Boley, 20)

1846 - The commonwealth received most of its revenue from custom duties which angered the indigenous traders and British merchants on whom they were levied. The British government advised Liberian authorities that it did not recognize the right of the American Colonization Society, a private organization, to levy these taxes. Britain's refusal to recognize Liberian sovereignty convinced many colonists that independence with full taxing authority was necessary for the survival of the colony and its immigrant population.
In October, Americo-Liberian colonists voted in favor of independence.

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