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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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Volume II of Liberia Before 1822.
Research period 1821–1862.
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Contents
Part I · The Cape Mesurado Agreement
1- 1. West Africa at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century3
- 2. From Sherbro Island to Cape Mesurado9
- 3. December 15, 182115
- 4. Who Had the Authority to Transfer the Land?21
- 5. Agreement, Purchase, Lease or Political Alliance?27
- 6. Eli Ayres, Robert F. Stockton and King Peter33
- 7. The Gun, the Contract and the Historical Record39
Part II · Establishing the Settlement
45Part III · The Expansion of Colonial Liberia
83Part IV · The Rise of Settler Political Power
127Part V · From Colony to Commonwealth
165Part VI · The Creation of the Republic
203Part VII · The Republic and the Indigenous Majority
247- 40. A Republic Without Full National Integration249
- 41. Indigenous Citizenship and Political Exclusion255
- 42. Taxes, Trade and the Hinterland261
- 43. Military Expeditions and Territorial Consolidation267
- 44. The Kru, Grebo, Gola, Vai and Other Political Communities273
- 45. The Mandingo Commercial Networks279
- 46. Land, Sovereignty and Historical Memory285
Part VIII · Reassessing Liberia's Founding Narrative
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