🇱🇷 American Couple Reacts "Liberia: The Only Country In The World Formed By African Americans!"
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- 🇱🇷 American Couple Reacts "Liberia: The Only Country In The World Formed By African Americans!" | The Demouchets REACT
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I’m an half Liberian and I grew up there, there was a conflict between the Americo Liberians(free slave) and the indigenous people, the main reason for the conflict was the natives felt looked down upon by the Americo Liberians, in reality the manner in which the local were treated were the same way the free slaves were being treated in the states, and this made the local dissatisfied and it caused a lot of conflicts. Liberia have been independent since 1847 and during that time frame, the country was mostly rule by the Americo Liberians, because the local wasn’t allow to take part in the election, they own most of the land in the capital city(Monrovia) and the country at large, and up to this date, they are still very influential in terms of money, power and politics but worst of all for me they thought of themselves as better than the indigenous people. However today things are getting better but there is still a very huge disparity in terms of wealth and education. Liberia is a wonderful place, with a lot of issues but the people are working tirelessly to make the country a better place.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Is the descendants of the enslaved still called Americo Liberians?
@@TheDemouchetsREACT yes but today it more common to refer to them as the “Congo” pronounce as “congau”.
@@cultured_1 Why Congo? Is it there where they originated?
@@kariluckis8030 many enslaved peoples in the Americas originated from the deep inland of the Congo if I remember correctly.
@@kariluckis8030 When the Americo-Liberians established in what is called Liberia today, they in many ways discouraged the continuation of slave trade. So they accepted they re-captive slaves that the British naval ships arrest on high seas on the way to South American plantations. The re-captives from areas called the Republic of Congo were warmly by American - Liberian and settled in their communities; interrelated with them culturally. Because their population were comparative larger than that of the Amerco- Liberians, so when they became influential in the country and we're in smooth terms with Americo-Liberians over time and build large towns; they generation at the time called them (Americo-Liberian and Re-captives of today's Congo Republic) both Congo people.
I'm from the Gola trib we were the first people they meet. I have lots of post steams and books 150 years old about my beloved country Liberia 🇱🇷 ♥️ ❤️ 💙
I am a Liberian-American living in Durham, North Carolina. Thanks for bringing attention to Liberia. We appreciate you. To all African Americans, Liberia is your home, and we are waiting for you all to visit and decide to stay. The people of Liberia are very friendly and you will feel so welcome during your visit.
Ghana is far safer, better infrastructure and more viable for investment or tourism
Who ask you ?
I am a Liberian in North Carolina nice to meet you homie
@@skp8748 This is not a competition between Liberia and Ghana. I'm telling my story.
The sad irony of the Americo-Liberians. History repeats itself. Very sad. Pre-colonial imperialism in Africa is also neglected in schools but I do understand why this unpleasant truth is not talked about- though I do think it should.
That's human nature right there in that story, it is not inherently and exclusively an AA thing. The formerly oppressed always take on the role of the the oppressor once liberated, but yes Africans in general are still very welcoming but those who know this story are very cautious - not a lot of Africans particularly in Southern Africa know of this history though.
Why are they cautious?
Liberians are nice people.Its so unfortunate that a war broke out in that country.I am not from there but love the country and the people.
Thank you
Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of color from the United States. The emigration of African Americans, both free and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society (ACS). The mortality rate of these settlers was the highest in accurately recorded human history.Of the 4,571 emigrants who arrived in Liberia between 1820 and 1843, only 1,819 survived (39.8%).
In 1846, the first black governor of Liberia, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, requested the Liberian legislature to declare independence, but in a manner that would allow them to maintain contacts with the ACS. The legislature called for a referendum, in which Liberians chose independence. On July 26, 1847, a group of eleven signatories declared Liberia an independent nation. The ACS as well as several northern state governments and local colonization chapters continued to provide money and emigrants as late as the 1870s.[5] The United States government declined to act upon requests from the ACS to make Liberia an American colony or to establish a formal protectorate over Liberia, but it did exercise a "moral protectorate" over Liberia, intervening when threats manifested towards Liberian territorial expansion or sovereignty. Upon Liberian independence, Roberts was elected as the first president of Liberia.[6]
Liberia retained its independence throughout the Scramble for Africa by European colonial powers during the late 19th century, while remaining in the American sphere of influence. President William Howard Taft made American support to Liberia a priority of his foreign policy. From the 1920s, the economy focused on exploitation of natural resources. The rubber industry, specifically the Firestone Company, dominated the economy. Until 1980, Liberia was controlled politically by descendants of the original African-American settlers, known collectively as Americo-Liberians, who consisted of a small minority of the population. The violent overthrow of the Americo-Liberian regime that year led to two civil wars that devastated the country, the first from 1989-1997 and the second from 1999-2003.
I’m just a ways to the middle of the video and can honestly feel and see the emotions on you guy’s face!
Been following your reaction videos for a bit now (almost a year) and love that you’re interested in learning more about Africa, (All of us home). I was so excited when I saw your first content on Liberia, but after watching the video then, I was a bit disappointed because your reaction discovering Liberian history did not seem to sit right (Don’t know if that’s a better way to describe it).
Yet, I’ve been watching and following you guys videos still though. Love you two and your openness in learning about Home!
I was a bit hesitant this time to watch your second video about Liberia. Seeing your eyes and faces speaks a bunch of emoticons and mix feelings to me. As an African (Liberian) I’m sure we all wish our history wasn’t written nor lived the way it was on both sides. And I wish we continue to learn more of ourselves and embrace each other more no matter where we are.❤
Going to continue the video now😂
Family we need another video with Liberia history
Thanks for this from South Africa first here this...wow
This Americo Liberian story is why most Africans on the continent are very skeptical of AA moving to the motherland.
Why? Today things have changed a lot.
@@kariluckis8030 People never change
The United States government is behind the narrative, creating division among black people everywhere.
Between 1847 and 1980, the state of Liberia was dominated by the small minority of African-American colonists and their descendants, known collectively as Americo-Liberians. The Americo-Liberian minority, many of whom were mixed-race African Americans, viewed the native majority as "racially" inferior to themselves and treated them much the same as white Americans had treated them. To avoid "racial" contamination, the Americo-Liberians practiced endogamous marriage.For over a century the indigenous population of the country was denied the right to vote or participate significantly in the running of the country. The Americo-Liberians consolidated power amongst themselves. They, but not the natives, received financial support from supporters in the United States. They established plantations and businesses, and were generally richer than the indigenous people of Liberia, exercising overwhelming political power.
Politics
Politically, Liberia was dominated by two political parties. The Americo-Liberians had limited the franchise to prevent indigenous Liberians from voting in elections.The Liberian Party (later the Republican Party), was supported primarily by mixed-race African Americans from poorer backgrounds, while the True Whig Party received much of its following from richer blacks.From the first presidential election in 1847, the Liberian Party held political dominance. It used its position of power to attempt to cripple its opposition.
In 1869, however, the Whigs won the presidential election under Edward James Roye. Although Roye was deposed after two years and the Republicans returned to government, the Whigs regained power in 1878 and maintained power constantly thereafter for over a century.
A series of rebellions among the indigenous Liberian population took place between the 1850s and 1920s. In 1854, a newly independent African-American state in the region, the Republic of Maryland, was forced by an insurgency of the Grebo and the Kru people to join Liberia. Liberia's expansion brought the colony into border disputes with the French and British in French Guinea and Sierra Leone, respectively. The presence and protection of the U.S. Navy in West Africa until 1916 ensured that Liberia's territorial acquisitions or independence were never under threat.
Society
Americo-Liberian and indigenous segregation (1847-1940)
The social order in Liberia was dominated by Americo-Liberians. Although descended primarily from peoples of African origin, often with some white DNA from an owner impregnating an enslaved female , the ancestors of most Americo-Liberians had been born in the United States for generations before emigrating to Africa. As a result, they held American cultural, religious, and social values. Like many Americans of the period, the Americo-Liberians held a firm belief in the religious superiority of Christianity, and indigenous animism and culture became systematically oppressed.
The Americo-Liberians created communities and a society that reflected closely the American society they had known. They spoke English, and built churches and houses in styles resembling those found in the Southern United States. The Americo-Liberians controlled the native peoples' access to the ocean, modern technology and skills, literacy, higher levels of education, and valuable relationships with many of the United States' institutions-including the American government.
Reflecting the system of segregation in the United States, the Americo-Liberians created a cultural and racial caste system, with themselves at the top and indigenous Liberians at the bottom. They believed in a form of "racial equality," which meant that all residents of Liberia had the potential to become "civilized" through western-style education and conversion to Christianity.
Social change (1940-1980)
During World War II, thousands of indigenous Liberians migrated from the nation's rural interior to the coastal regions in search of jobs. The Liberian Government had long opposed this kind of migration, but was no longer able to restrain it. In the decades after 1945, the Liberian government received hundreds of millions of dollars of unrestricted foreign investment, which destabilized the Liberian economy. Government revenue rose enormously, but was being grossly embezzled by government officials. Growing economic disparities caused increased hostility between indigenous groups and Americo-Liberians.
The social tensions led President Tubman to enfranchise the indigenous Liberians either in 1951 or 1963 (accounts differ). Tubman and his Whig Party continued to repress political opposition and rig elections.
International relations
After 1927, the League of Nations investigated accusations that the Liberian government had forcibly recruited and sold indigenous people as contract laborers or slaves. In its 1930 report, the league admonished the Liberian government for "systematically and for years fostering and encouraging a policy of gross intimidation and suppression" by "[suppressing] the native, prevent him from realizing his powers and limitations and prevent him from asserting himself in any way whatever, for the benefit of the dominant and colonizing race, although originally the same African stock as themselves."President Charles D. B. King hastily resigned.
@daniel akalamudo. Thank you so much for this detailed historical background of the Liberian socio-political landscape.
The American nature of exceptionalism and need for dominance seemed to haunt our A.A. kin.
Strange how a minority accepted by a society is now said to have founded the nation and proceeds to enslave and sell the natives. Wow! The hubris of mimicking the master to the point of copying state names is beyond comprehension.
Whichever way you look at it, pride comes before a fall. You segregate yourself from the natives , you are bound to step on their toes at some stage.
Continentals quickly adopt to change because of cultural similarities and the desire for acceptance especially when integrating into a different country and society in Africa.
There is a community in Warren North Carolina called Liberia, named after the west African State Liberia 🇱🇷, where many freed slaves migrated to. Liberia, North Carolina is predominantly African American communities. I visited there once to see where my great grandparents boarded the ship 🛳️ that took them to Liberia 🇱🇷, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia,_North_Carolina
that is my homeland..love you guys ...i am from bong county and we have 15 counties and 16 tribes ..very nice country with multitude of enjoyment ...we got no tension between ...every African-American is considered by me as a liberian..we are one people ..true home for African-American
Liberia was a mini America before the war history is a light of life
One love bro and sis jah bless one love ❤
OUR PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP IN LIBERIA AND FINISH WHAT WAS STARTED AND TALK TO THE PEOPLE THERE OF TODAY
I agree! This would be great, especially for the descendants who can track their ancestors to Liberia.
I am Liberian African Americans are our biological brothers and sisters technically, you guys are welcome in Liberian anytime you want
Yes Liberia 🇱🇷
Wow as a liberian i never knew Sierra Leone turned away the african amerians. I've learned something new today. Plz more liberian content!!
Because the British would not allow blacks from the Americas to settle where they(the British) controlled. They felt the US sent them as a spy to monitor them. So ens they were rejected from Sierra Leone. So they went down to Liberia meaning liberated ppl. And the capital was named Monrovia because of President Monroe of the US by the freed slaves. I know this because I’m one of them but my ppl stayed in Freetown, Sierra Leone and refused to leave. So the slaves that stayed there named the capital Freetown meaning freed ppl. And we are called Krio now…
They did after mistreating the locals as slaves in liberia
As long as we African Americans leave our poisonous mindset learned by our oppressors of thinking we're better than others. We may be different in some ways but our diversity is our strength as African people.
The United States government has been creating the divisive narratives that we find ourselves arguing over.
Liberia in the building
The video is a bit misleading. I was born and raised in Grand kru liberia. Afrikan americans did not colonize anyone or displaced anyone. Were there some Afrikan americans that looked down on indigenous people? yes, there were. However , people often look over the fact that Afrikan americans and indigenous groups worked together and intermarried. People often look over the fact that Afrikan americans fought against the slave trade there, and they were attacked by indigenous tribes because it interfered with their slave trade. We can not leave out important parts of history and only tell half to suit a particular narrative, and that narrative has always been Afrikan americans enslaved and colonized native groups, which is completely false.
Great History. Great storytelling.
Settlers from various states in the United States named the towns/cities in which they settled after where they came from. For example, if they were from Maryland, they named that place Maryland.
THEY WANT US THERE
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Sweet land of liberty, thanks for the information
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You guys should react to kunta kinte "roots" and the triangular slave trade in Gambia
We're not sure how we could react to it. It's a long movie with many parts. & we've watched it over and over again throughout childhood.😅
due to the prosperity of liberia, the country was destroyed by charles Taylor
We African people do not harbor animosity towards African Americans.
I think Michael Jackson is from Liberia ❤️❤️❤️❤️
No he's not lol
Yakubu you got kuhunal saying that 😂😅
No he isn’t
This man narrating the African American historical prowess in Africa does not know the details of this rich part of Liberian history or he is not be a good narrator that's why it is presented in this manner. For whoever really love to know more about Liberian history from the dawn of 1816 when formal advent of the discussion of return to the motherland can be found in documentary and excerpts in the library of Congress USA or some works of Liberian authors such as Joseph Saye Gwanu -" book: Liberian History up 1847".
This history was taught in schools in Liberia for over a 130 years before the 20 years civil war ensued that ended in 2003. Since the 1980s when the first native took over the country from African American rule this teaching of this aspect history of Liberia has been considerately decreased. Doing that made since in some ways as it relates to been taught all through about the livelihood, styles, manners and places in the USA while the student is still living Africa he's yet taught about the American dream, customs and culture. On the order hand it doesn't make a since because Liberia has no history without it's African American founding fathers who fought through hassles to built the first modern state ever in Black Western Africa when all of Africa excluding Ethiopia only were European colonies as far back in the early 19 & 20th centuries. There was no Sweet land of Liberty- "Liberia" without their return and efforts. Even though they were rejected by the U.S. government, who claimed they were unable govern themselves, but yet they preserve and were resilient inspite of that, declared Liberia's independence in July 26 1847. They were hated by European powers while US government played hypocrisy against in many ways, because been the educated elites at that time in Black Africa who preached against colonialism, opening eyes of the natives on the continent. Look, those of Liberians who returned to motherland were heroes and heroins. They did a whole lot in effort to liberate continent in their day and age. Their efforts and works are forgotten today only because they were black people. If those people were whites their names wound have been all over the place. And the fire of Liberation they drove when they came among nations that were already colonised by Europeans, teaching that colonialism in Africa was wrong, the white people dislike it and that effort the whites suppressed for over a 100 years before African nations began to understand what the American- Liberians spoke openly about and began declaring independence from colonial rule. The Generations of Africa on the continent today barely know about these stories and enslavement of Africans. So taking this history away from the schools system in Liberia can't help any better. For it is rooted in the blood of the Liberians. This is why today when you meet an educated Liberian, be it an Americo-Liberian or Native Liberian, whether they have travel to U.S.A before or not, looks closely identical to Black Americans in speech, behavior and manners.
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