Kentucky in Africa explained

Conventional Long Name:Kentucky in Africa
Common Name:Natal
Era:Imperialism
Status:Colony
Empire:American Colonization Society
Year Start:1828
Year End: 1847
Event1:Annexed by Liberia
P1:American Colonization Society
Flag P1:Flag of Liberia (1827-1847).svg
Capital:Clay-Ashland
Today:Liberia
Area Km2:100

Kentucky in Africa was a colony in present-day Montserrado County, Liberia, founded in 1828 and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves. A state affiliate of the American Colonization Society, the Kentucky State Colonization Society raised money to transport people of color from Kentucky—freeborn volunteers as well as enslaved individuals set free on the condition that they leave the United States for Liberia.[1] The Kentucky society bought a 40sqmi site along the Saint Paul River (quite near the site of the present-day capital city of Monrovia) and named it Kentucky in Africa.[1] Clay-Ashland. named after Henry Clay's Ashland Plantation, was the colony's primary settlement.[1]

Notable residents of Kentucky in Africa include Alfred Francis Russell, the 10th President of Liberia, and William D. Coleman, the 13th President of Liberia, whose family settled in Clay-Ashland after emigrating from Fayette County, Kentucky.[2] [3]

Kentucky in Africa was annexed by Liberia in about 1847.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ket.org/program/kentucky-in-africa/ "Kentucky in Africa" (special edition of Kentucky Life)
  2. Web site: President William David Coleman 1896 – 1900 . Liberia Past And Present. 2008-12-08 . 2020-02-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200226183908/http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ColemanWilliamDavid.htm . dead .
  3. Web site: A Letter from Liberia: Reverend Alfred F. Russell to Robert Wickliffe in Lexington, Kentucky (July 3, 1855) . Bluegrass Community & Technical College. December 8, 2008 . February 22, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090222000521/http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/HIS/scraps/liberia2.html . dead .
  4. Book: Anyanwu, Ogechi E. . Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience . Day . Lisa . Farrington . Joshua . Graham . Gwendolyn . Powell . Norman . . 2022 . 978-1-7343289-1-2 . 2nd . Richmond, Kentucky . 2022 . 120 . en . 6 . PDF . 2024-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240314162543/https://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ekuopen . PDF . 2024-03-14 . live.