Liberia Project

Surname/tag: Liberia

The Liberia Project is a part of the Africa Project and the US Black Heritage Project

Liberia was founded in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS). From 1822 to the early 1860s, more than 15,000 emancipated and free-born black people, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, were relocated to Liberia.

Please also see: The American Colonization Society for information about the free people of color and those who were enslaved who were influenced to emigrate from the United States to Liberia.

Liberia's first inhabitants were ancestors of the Gola and Kissi peoples from north-central Africa who arrived as early as the 12th century.

The goal of this project is to

• Create new family profiles for people born in Liberia
• Create new profiles for Liberia notables and keep a list of these on this page
• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting Liberia Genealogies.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting Liberia families to the Global Family Tree.
• To create the genealogical bridge between the USA and Liberia.
• To tell both the indigenous and colonial stories.
• To make every Liberia profile the best it can be.

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

• Providence Baptist Church of Monrovia, founded by Lott Cary - space page?
• Expand Lott Cary's family tree
• Develop the Mississippi State Colonization Society with Mississippi Emigrants to Liberia.
• Continue work on Maryland State Colonization Society
• Create the plantation named Prospect Hill, owned by Isaac Ross

Project Sticker

If a person was born in Liberia, please use the sticker code: {{Liberia Sticker}} which gives you:

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For descendants of people born in Liberia, you could use either {{African Ancestry}}

which gives you

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or

{{Heritage Sticker

|roots=Liberian

|image= African_Flags-27.png

|imagetext= Flag of Liberia

}}

Which gives you

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Liberian Notables

• Lott Cary Emigrated in 1821 on the Ship Nautilus. Cary was among the settlers who founded the town of Monrovia. There he established a church and he served as the pastor of Providence Baptist Church and president of the Monrovia Baptist Missionary Society. He was elected in September 1826, to the Vice Agency of the Colony, and later served as the colony's acting governor from August 1828 to his death in November of that year. He established a joint stock company to improve Monrovia’s harbor and helped extend the colony’s territory.
• Louise C. (Wilson) York (1925-2011) served 23 years as President of Monrovia College & Industrial Training School. During the civil war she dared to make a giant step to become the founding first President of the AME University.
• Martin Henry Freeman (1826-abt.1889) He arrived in Liberia in 1864 where he served as a professor at Liberia College teaching math, algebra, geometry, chemistry, natural philosophy, latin and greek, then served as the College’s acting president until 1885.

Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, or our join post on