Liberia, republic in West Africa, on the Atlantic Ocean coast. A sparsely populated land, Liberia was founded in the early 1800s by freed American slaves. The Liberian Civil War, from 1989 to 1996, killed 150,000 people and devastated the country’s economy and infrastructure. Liberia is bounded on the north by Sierra Leone and Guinea, on the east by Côte d’Ivoire, and on the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:30 am
It was also the part where abolitionist wanted to send African-American slaves to so that they could be free. Many of these African-Americans had been in America for generations.
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