Still, many indigenous people aspired to be like Americo-Liberians to attain power and prosperity. Some dropped their African names and adopted English ones. Many indigenous families, including ...

But instead of creating a proverbial land of liberty that made a clean break from their brutal past, the settlers—called “Americo-Liberians” or, if they were Africans who had been trafficked ...

On the contrary, Firestone supported—and perhaps aggravated—a simmering Liberian social problem: the division between resettled African-Americans and their descendants, known as Americo ...

On January 7, 1822, a transformational event happened in Liberia that links with African-American history: the first group of black American emigrants landed on Providence Island near what is now ...

NARRATOR: President Tubman was an Americo-Liberian, a member of Liberia's ruling class, many of whom were descendants of the freed American slaves who founded the country in 1847. >> Liberia was ...

This ended Liberia's first republic. The coup marked the end of dominance by the minority Americo-Liberians, who had ruled since independence. It also brought a period of instability. Over time ...

Dominique Tolbert, who lives in New Rochelle, N.Y., is a granddaughter of Mr. Tolbert, the former president, and a descendant of Americo Liberians, as well as the Kpelle people, who are Indigenous ...

These settlers, known as Americo-Liberians, brought cultural traditions across the Atlantic Ocean with them, including Thanksgiving. The two countries' observations of the holiday have diverged ...

The U.S.-educated Liberian president faces U.N. war crimes indictment. He has not set a timetable for leaving his country.

But colonialism, even when exercised with good intent, has a dark side. The Americo-Liberians found themselves in conflict with the indigenous peoples of Liberia. And that, sadly, is also very ...

It encompasses the era of Americo-Liberian dominance that began at independence in 1847, collapsed with a 1980 coup d’état, and deteriorated further during the period in which junta leader ...