American+settlers


 * Settlers from the usa**

american people settled in liberia on july 26 1847. Liberians decleared the independence of the republic of liberia.   The settlers regarded the continent from which their forefathers had been taken as slaves as a "Promised Land", but they did not become reintegrated into an African society. Once in Africa, they referred to themselves as "Americans" and were recognized as such by tribal Africans and by British colonial authorities in neighboring Sierra Leone. 