How did Liberia Get its Name?
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Aside from the fact that it has one of the most unique histories in Africa, the fact that it's the only African nation to have been colonized by African Americans, the fact that it's one of only two African countries that were not colonized during Europe’s scramble for colonies, the fact that it is Africa’s oldest republic, the fact that the first female president on the continent calls it home and that its current president is the only African to have been named World Player of the Year, little else is known about the west African nation of Liberia. So how did Liberia get its Name?
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Thank you for this history lesson in 8 mins! What was disturbing/disappointing, is the fact that they treated the natives in the same manner in which they were treated in the US. Lost opportunity to join forces and truly live as an equitable nation.
They’re literally the ones who sold us to begin with! To hell with them!
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This is misinformation. Please do not believe it. I am a Liberian and NOBODY treated indigenous Liberians bad. It is propaganda by the colonizers. This is a lie
It somewhat a common occurrence that often times victims of certain crimes go on and commit those crimes onto others (hence why you had a small percentage of black en-slavers in the USA). Liberia was the second attempt to settle former enslaved people of the USA outside the country. The other place was an island off the coast of Haiti. The problem with the whole Liberia project is that they selected a land that was already inhabited. I wonder how would history been different if the settlement was done on empty land whether in Africa on in the United States.
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Excellent content! As an American Diasporian, I am VERY disappointed my people treated the natives the same way our colonizers treated them. That is our problem. We foolishly love to take on the ways of our oppressors. When will we ever learn?
I’m coming to East Africa and I’m investing and integrating for our culture.
Liberia was never colonized
The American Colonization Society
The Republic OF Liberia was established by the American Colonization Society 🇱🇷
What is an African American? Is it just a government identification for a lot of different African descendant people who were born in America who must of them can't trace their slave history and don't know their real ethnicity? In the 21 Century they don't all have the same culture, traditions or religion anymore. I suspect the classification doesn't have the same meaning it had in the 19th and 20th Century. This would be a good topic of discussion. Also, mentioning the various names the government used to classify African descendant people born in America would be another point. First they were called Colored, then Negro, then Afro American, then black American and now the new term African American starting in 1989. So, what does this really mean in the 21 Century for African descendant people born in America? Many African Americans no longer have the culture, traditions or religion of the first immigrants of Liberia, Monrovia.
Is about time we change the country name and flag. Anything African had always been rejected especially names, in this country.
Change name of the City,can’t believe any African nation is happy to have its capital city named after a Slave Owning American president.
The country has a turbulent past . It reminds us the old adage that says,he who gets abused will end up abusing others. Those that make decisions to relocate need to cleanse themselves first ,so they don’t repeat mistakes from where they left.
Bible > Psalms > Chapter 83 > Verse 4
◄ Psalm 83:4 ►
Context Crossref Comm Hebrew
Verse (Click for Chapter)
New International Version
“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
New Living Translation
“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
English Standard Version
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
Berean Standard Bible
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
King James Bible
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
New King James Version
They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
New American Standard Bible
They have said, “Come, and let’s wipe them out as a nation, So that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
NASB 1995
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
NASB 1977
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Legacy Standard Bible
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Amplified Bible
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Christian Standard Bible
They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”
Holman Christian Standard Bible
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”
American Standard Version
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they said, "Come, we will destroy them from the nation and the name of Israel will be remembered no more!"
Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.
Contemporary English Version
They say, "Let's wipe out the nation of Israel and make sure that no one remembers its name!"
Douay-Rheims Bible
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
English Revised Version
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
They say, "Let's wipe out their nation so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
Good News Translation
"Come," they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."
International Standard Version
They say, "Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore."
Robert G Harper gave the name Liberia. He was a slave trader, nothing to be proud of about this name.
According to the facts spoken by Dr Arikana the former AU ambassador to the US, when Kwame Nkrumah called for the unity of the continent in 1963 in order for us to be totally liberated economically, it was the Liberian-led groups who opposed him and voted against the Casablanca group who were for total unity and freedom.
There's something about Liberia that's not truly African till today. Why are they still flying a colonial and oppressive flag till today?
Two hundred years in Africa and has not fully Africanized yet?
We need answers.
@Afrika Diaspora Teacher If they would Free their Minds, then their Hearts would follow.
Interesting analysis @Agboka I'll definitely read more on it
Their Capital city Monrovia is the only City in the World named after a former US President. Not only that,the US President James Monroe was a Slave owner who refused to free his slaves in his Will. They suffered horrific abuse at hands of overseers but he just looked the other way.
If we explained to you. Idk much what you explained, but in my opinion, liberia is still a colony of America. Whether we see it or not; look what they did in the 80s and 90s…. Yea, liberia is not free.
Ironically Liberia, South Carolina, an independent town founded by black people, pre-dates Liberia the country.
Wow! Interesting!
Always love the information you share!
Many thanks for always watching @stevenfisher Cheers!
I think I want to visit Liberia. 🤔
You should! Its very rich in history and very nice beaches
You are truly appreciated. Thank you for always sharing the true history of my country. Just to add, free slaves/settlers initially attacked the native with the support of the American military before gaining full access to that little part of the land they ended up settling on.
The "settlers" the with the help of native abolitionists ended the slave trade on what is now Liberia.
Thank you very much may the light of our true God Shine on you always
You are so welcome! Same to you
Yes
Great job as always 👌💯
Many thanks brother! Cheers!
I'll see you, next time
:-) Cheers brother
😮❤❤❤ my beautiful country😊
Dear Sir
Very good information
Thanks lots sir
Ashok from India
Much appreciated @Ashok Cheers!
Facts
Very interesting indeed. Good job. 😂🎉
Most welcome!
please speak SLOWLY
your english is very difficult to follow.
Just turn on the subtitle
We understand his English perfectly. Don’t know what accent you understand,his accent is clear for just about anyone who in none-snobbish to understand.
Very good to know. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤🇱🇷
You're most welcome! Cheers!
Liberia 🇱🇷
Yes sir! Cheers!
Wow! Who knew!!
I know right..🙂 Many thanks @got2dream
As a liberian, the natives were not treated as second class citizen. We were also never colonized.
Thank you for this video. Actually, I am learning a lot
Happy to hear! You're most welcome
Liberia is a fascinating place. Thank you so much for this history lesson! It would be nice to know what Liberia looks like today. Is there still some separation between African-Americans and natives?
Nice video idea @svenmarkert I'll definitely look into it! Much appreciated
No. Please no promotion of separation of our family
Interesting video but I think your analysis is buying into a colonial narrative and should go deeper.
Liberia was first settled in 1821 on empty land purchased by the ACS. It was not established by force like the colonial powers. The ACS governors saw Liberia as a commercial enterprise and exploited the settlers/Americo Liberians who were not all ex-slaves or even American. Some were born free and lots were captured from along the West Coast of Africa, especially modern day Nigeria, and shipped to Liberia after slave ships were seized crossing the Atlantic after the abolition of the slave trade in 1808.
The settlers fought to abolish the slave trade which was still very active in West Africa at the time and succeeded in liberating the entire territory, incorporating the people they freed people into the settlement. Although while under white ACS rule you had to be Christian to be a part of the settlement, after the settlers declared independence from the ACS, the constitution (which was not based off of the US') included freedom of religion. The only requirement then and to this day, to qualify as a Liberian citizen is to be of African descent.
Liberia was the hub of Panafricanism in the movement's infancy, Marcus Garvey's Back to Africa Movement was originally meant to be in Liberia in the 1920s, until US and European intervention.
The labour scandals only occurred after the US took control over Liberia's military and began economically dominating the country. Liberians created the largest plantation made by hand, via forced labour, for the US private company Firestone Rubber in 1926 - this company still runs today. The Liberian government was about to be annexed by Britain and France at this point in time. Giving up economic and military sovereignty to American advisors and foreign investment was the lesser evil.
There were members of the Liberian legislature that were profiting off of the recruitment of forced labour in the 1920s - Spain was forcing people to work in slave like conditions in their island of Fernando Po and were buying labour from Liberian officials. These officials weren't 'all Americans enslaving natives' - history is more nuanced than that. Liberia has 16 different 'native' ethnicities other than 'Americo-Libeiran', all with autonomous people. As soon as the scandal was exposed, the Liberian legislature impeached the members involved in Forced Labour but the US continued to exploit the country via Firestone. It was not considered illegal that Spain was using the supplied forced labour either.
During the cold war the US supplied military and economic aid to the Liberian dictator William Tubman as well as securing him the presidency. Tubman destroyed unions and crushed protests so that American and his own private interests could flourish.
After Tubman died in 1971, he was followed by Tolbert who was a PanAfricanist who moved to industrialise and nationalise Liberia's resources and to rewrite the previous bad concession agreements. In 1979 the US supported a coup to overthrow him which ultimately led to destabilisation and a 14 year civil war in 1989. Violence ended in 2004 and US and European powers profited from blood diamonds, timber and gold during the conflict.
Liberia's history is purposefully misrepresented by the West to suppress African unity and liberation - Liberia represented freedom for Africans from the Americas to the continent for many years. Misinformation was spread during 19th and 20th centuries regarding Liberia to justify colonisation of the continent and to sabotage Pan-Africanist movements - 'Look at the Africans they treat each other badly too'. Just because Liberia was never colonized by whites did not mean it had its sovereignty respected - even today our leaders allow foreign companies to exploit on the continent.
Liberia's history is complicated. Like your latest video on Ghana and Nkrumah, we hosted many great Africans as a country, but also like Ghana, a few greedy people are used as puppets by the Europeans and Americans to exploit us.
@@cdee75 of course the entire country wasn't empty. You misunderstood me. The piece of land which was purchased by the ACS, which the settler first arrived on, was not in use when it was sold.
@@oxfordsbro How many political parties was in Liberia prior to 1980.
There was no land purchased, those are colonial narratives you’re also spreading.
But the treatment of locals was pretty much similar to what Mzungus had done to AmericoLiberians back in Amerikkka. So they did repeat what their oppressors had done to them. It’s a painful truth,better to take the good with the bad a learn a lesson from it,better than deny what happened.
@@ronaldmadziro5679 I'm not sure where you've got that information from. I would recommend learning from real Liberian historians, intellectuals and from primary sources. The settlers from America treated locals nowhere near as badly as the Europeans. There is no evidence of that. There was lots of intermarrying, today, you can barely see a difference between those who returned from America and those who are 'natives'. You have a very 1 dimensional view handed down from the colonizers and should do better to educate yourself. The Liberian History Channel on Focus on Liberia has a great series discussing real Liberian history if you would like to know more. Can't you see that your narrative is meant to disunite Africans? Peace and love.
Liberia stands apart in many ways while standing together with other African Countries. Interesting information
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