Liberia the Americo-African Republic, Being Some Impressions of the Climate, Resources, and People, Resulting From Personal Observations and Experiences in West Africa (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Liberia the Americo-African Republic, Being Some Impressions of the Climate, Resources, and People, Resulting From Personal Observations and Experiences in West Africa The Belgian king, who has enlisted the great States of Europe to follow his "New Star in the East" on the Congo, found his parallel to guide him in Berkeley's "Star of Empire", which arose two and a half centuries ago on the American shores. In the history of Liberia the parallel holds good. The men who colonized the new settlements, now constituting the United States of America, were mostly the descendants of slaves under successive Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman lords. They learned self-government as colonists only after five generations of protectorate under the mother country. Their early settlements on the coast and along river-bottoms proved unhealthful, sterile, and inhospitable. Jamestown was soon deserted, Chester and Plymouth were left to decay, commerce often was hampered, and public debt seemed irretrievable. Youth were sent to the mother country to be educated, and churches sought both ministers and their support from the mother country. Liberia was settled only two generations ago by slaves just freed, without property or education. In one generation they were nominally independent, having their own Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature. No nation behind, fully in sympathy, fostered them in their need, the U. S. Government only making their territory an asylum for recaptured slaves, and not even granting their special needs, exploration and opening up inland resources, mail communication with their kindred at home, a gun-boat to protect their commerce, all which "neglect" another Burke in the U. S. Congress is needed faithfully to portray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.