Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a free black from Virginia, declared the creation of the independent Republic of Liberia, which became a haven in West Africa for former American slaves. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Junius P. Rodriguez, Chronology of World Slavery (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), 142.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Slavery/Abolition
