historical records of the Republic of Liberia

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The historical records of the Republic of Liberia are archival documents and accounts that chronicle the nation’s political, social, and economic development from its founding by freed African Americans through its evolution as Africa’s first modern republic.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf archival collection
documentary heritage
historical source
additionalRepository Center for National Documents and Records Agency (Liberia) NERFINISHED
Liberian Studies collections in foreign universities
University of Liberia NERFINISHED
countryDocumented Republic of Liberia NERFINISHED
coversPeriodFrom early 19th century
coversPeriodTo present
documentsAspect Liberian civil conflicts NERFINISHED
Liberian cultural and religious life
Liberian economic policy
Liberian education history
Liberian foreign relations
Liberian governance and public administration
Liberian land and settlement patterns
Liberian legal history
constitutional development of Liberia
economic history of Liberia
political history of Liberia
social history of Liberia
documentsEvent 1979 rice riots in Liberia NERFINISHED
1980 military coup in Liberia
Americo-Liberian settlement and expansion
First Liberian Civil War NERFINISHED
Liberian boundary negotiations with neighboring states
Liberian participation in the League of Nations
Liberia’s role in the Second World War
Second Liberian Civil War NERFINISHED
Tubman-era political and economic reforms
adoption of the 1847 Liberian Constitution
declaration of independence of Liberia in 1847
founding of Liberia by freed African Americans
post-war reconstruction and peacebuilding in Liberia
includesMaterialType census records
colonial-era correspondence of the American Colonization Society
diplomatic correspondence
government records
judicial records
land deeds
legislative records
maps
missionary records
newspapers
oral histories
personal papers
photographs
presidential papers
treaties
languageOfMaterial English
primaryRepository National Archives of Liberia NERFINISHED
usedBy genealogists
historians of Africa
policy makers
political scientists
usedFor documentation of human rights abuses in Liberia
research on African-American repatriation to Africa
research on early African republics
transitional justice processes in Liberia

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Joseph Jenkins Roberts describedBySource historical records of the Republic of Liberia