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Liberia After 1822
From the Cape Mesurado Agreement to the Formation of the Liberian Republic
Volume II of Liberia Before 1822
Mo Hakim Kamara, III
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Liberia After 1822Copyright
© 2026 Mo Hakim Kamara, III. All rights reserved.
Volume II of Liberia Before 1822.
Research period 1821–1862.
No part of this work may be reproduced without written permission, except brief quotations in scholarly review.
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Liberia After 1822Contents
Contents
- 1. West Africa at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century3
- 2. From Sherbro Island to Cape Mesurado25
- 3. December 15, 182147
- 4. Who Had the Authority to Transfer the Land?71
- 5. Agreement, Purchase, Lease or Political Alliance?97
- 6. Eli Ayres, Robert F. Stockton and King Peter119
- 7. The Gun, the Contract and the Historical Record141
- 40. A Republic Without Full National Integration703
- 41. Indigenous Citizenship and Political Exclusion709
- 42. Taxes, Trade and the Hinterland715
- 43. Military Expeditions and Territorial Consolidation721
- 44. The Kru, Grebo, Gola, Vai and Other Political Communities727
- 45. The Mandingo Commercial Networks733
- 46. Land, Sovereignty and Historical Memory739
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