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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As was plainly evident in several photographs that Pelham was poring over that day in Monrovia, many of the original settlers, known as Americo-Liberians, assumed some of the ways of Southern ...

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 ...