Primary documents

Documentary Appendices

The volume closes with twelve appendices assembling the transcriptions, constitutions, treaties, records and maps on which the narrative rests.

• A

  A transcription and analysis of the 1821 Cape Mesurado agreement.

• B

  Biographical profiles of the African and American signatories.

• C

  Passenger and migration records from 1820 to 1847.

• D

  Genealogical record of Joseph Jenkins Roberts and the Roberts family.

• E

  Chronology of Liberian governors, agents and presidents.

• F

  The 1824 Constitution.

• G

  The 1839 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia.

• H

  The 1847 Declaration of Independence.

• I

  The 1847 Constitution of the Republic of Liberia.

• J

  Maps of territorial expansion from Cape Mesurado to the wider republic.

• K

  Major treaties between colonial or republican authorities and Indigenous leaders.

• L

  Historical names, ethnic identities and geographical terminology.