The American Colonization Society still controlled Liberia when Edward Roye moved there in 1846. In 1847, however, Liberians declared their independence, so they could establish a sovereign state and ...

From Monrovia, capital of Liberia, last week came word of a U.S. gesture that greatly gratified all patriotic Liberians. From a U.S. warship which recently anchored off the capital, sailors brought ...