Liberia
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Time hangs heavily on their hands , what with only an occasional dance , and up till recently the public hanging was a spectacle of human interest, not to say humour . The chief actor wears white , and when he has made his way through ..."-- Unknown Liberia (1936) by Harry James Greenwall and Roland Wild "These included the anti-colonialist and anti-missionary Africa Dances (1935) by the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer; and Unknown Liberia (1936) by Harry James Greenwall and Roland Wild which Greene considered second rate, doubting whether its authors had even been to Liberia."--Graham Greene: Political Writer (2016) by Michael G. Brennan |
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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1820, the American Colonization Society (ACS) began sending African American volunteers to the Pepper Coast to establish a colony for freed African Americans. By 1867, the ACS had assisted in the movement of more than 13,000 Americans to Liberia. These free African Americans came to identify themselves as Americo-Liberian, developing a cultural tradition infused with American notions of racial supremacy, and political republicanism.
