consists of a 99% tribal majority living in primitive isolation in the back country and a 1% governing minority called Americo-Liberians, descended from a group of freed U.S. slaves sent to the ...

An Americo-Liberian elite, descendants of the American slaves who declared Liberia independent in 1847,* was in power, ruling with little regard for the tribal people of the bush, whom they called ...

After joining his father in Liberia, Hans found himself on the advantageous side of an inhumane regime. The Western-identified Americo-Liberians worked poor natives for wretched wages and punished ...

Liberia is still a colony-like nation in which more than a million and a half tribal Africans are governed by a minority of fifteen thousand English-speaking Americo-Liberians, from whom they're ...