AMERICO-LIBERIAN

Specialty Definition: Americo-Liberian

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Americo-Liberians were the relatively wealthy elite of Liberia.

The were descended from freed slaves who immigrated in the 1820s to Liberia from the America. They adopted a Christian lifestyle and lived on the coast.

Under their rule the economy of Liberia rapidly developed.

Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Americo-Liberian."

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