FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS AND ADOS IN LIBERIAN HISTORY
Born FREE in Charleston, South Carolina.
Born FREE in Baltimore County, Maryland. His father was an ADOS who "bought his freedom"
Stephen Allen Benson was the 2nd President of Liberia (1856-1864). Born FREE to FREE parents in 1816 in Cambridge, Maryland.
Roye was born FREE in Newark, Ohio to a wealthy Igbo family (hmmm). He was killed in a coup in 1872.
Considered the "Father of Modern Liberia", William Tubman was born in Harper, Liberia, but his mother was an ADOS from Atlanta, Georgia. Queen Harriet was a distant cousin of his mother.
Born an ADOS in Kentucky he also served as a Supreme Court Judge in Liberia. His son born in Liberia, would become the first black man to attend Columbia University.
John Hanson was born an ADOS in Baltimore, Maryland. He would "buy his freedom" then immigrate to Liberia before becoming a Senator there. He is often incorrectly called "the 1st black US President" due to a CAC of the same name serving as President of US Congress ironically in the same time period.
Born FREE in Baltimore, Maryland, he is the last Liberian President that was born in the United States.
Chea Cheapoo, born Joseph Samson, isnt of ADOS descent, he is "native" African. But he attended my alma mater, North Carolina Central University (an ADOS HBCU) in Durham, North Carolina in the late 1960s earning a law degree. He would return to Liberia where after a brief stint in Government he would be impeached accused of corruption. He would then join oppositional forces that led to a coup of the Americo-Liberian (ADOS descendants) "elites" that ran the Government in 1980.