Etymology
August 22, 2008
The name Liberia denotes “liberty” as Black Americans moved to Liberia in 1822, who founded the country in 1847 with the support of the American Colonization Society creating a new ethnic group called the Americo-Liberians. However, this introduction of a new ethnic mix compounded ethnic tensions with the sixteen other main ethnicities.
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