Category Archives: 1857

‘Death of a Pioneer’ – 1857

Posted on 12 March 2021 by Dr. Fred P.M. van der Kraaij

I continue browsing through nineteenth century American newspapers with articles of varying length on the colonization of a strip of land on the shore of Western Africa and the subsequent creation of an independent state, Liberia. See my previous postings. … Continue reading →

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