American-Liberians=/=African-American
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I'm not even sure how to really word the question, but given that Americo-Liberians did come from the early AAs, why would we now deny them and separate them from AAs. I get the culture is different, quite different. I understand Americo-Liberians being their own subset, a distant relative of sorts. But I wouldn't completely cut them out of the AA set either. The Geeche-Gullah, IIRC, are definitely AA but their culture is very distinct from AA culture as we know it today. Closer to AA than AL but still quite distinct.
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The Gullah/Geechee actually went thru the majority of AA experience and did NOT leave early. Also its an exaggeration that their culture is extremely different from "mainstream" AAs.
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lots of misinformation in this thread. i'm too lazy too dive in
you know about Congo people right? From what I understand they are NOT Americo Liberians. I know theres a place in Liberia called Congo town where I believe was where most of them lived historically. I also believe these are the same Congo people that were in places like New Orleans (look up Congo Square).
I`m not well versed on their history though.
Don't just come in a thread saying there's a lot of misinformation and refute anything.
Aren’t you one of those Salone creoles?
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A lot of people here are creating alternative realities.
Notice, how nobody is mentioning here, that for more than a century, from 1848 to 1980, in order to be president in Liberia, you had to be a black person, born in USA or your parents had be born in USA.
And before that, from 1821 to 1848, in order to be a governor in Liberia, you had to be white or black born in USA. And some of them immigrated with their families to Liberia. Most of the Americo-Liberians, came from black or multiracial families that had been living in USA, for more than a century.
Using a small example of re-captives, is being completely delusional. Because the people in charge, the people who created the rules, and were controlling the wealth, were not re-captives from Congo. They were blacks, whose families had been in US America for a lot of years. The party that controlled Liberia from 1878 to 1980, was the True Whig Party, basically a copy of the Republican Party.
Liberia is a case, where descendants of former slaves, adopted everything from their slave masters, and tried to re-create that on another place. Basically what people from São Tomé and Cape Verde have been trying to do, unsuccessfully, in Angola for years. Force native angolans to adopt iberian costumes, just because most of them are descendants or mixed with iberians. And send most of our money to Portugal.
PS: Free people of color and free negros, were not slaves themselves, but descendants of slaves. So, saying that they were not AAs, because they were not slaves, doesn't make much sense.
Granville T. Woods, was a free negro, not a slave. But descendant of slaves. Are we going to say that he was not AA?
Notice, how nobody is mentioning here, that for more than a century, from 1848 to 1980, in order to be president in Liberia, you had to be a black person, born in USA or your parents had be born in USA.
And before that, from 1821 to 1848, in order to be a governor in Liberia, you had to be white or black born in USA. And some of them immigrated with their families to Liberia. Most of the Americo-Liberians, came from black or multiracial families that had been living in USA, for more than a century.
Using a small example of re-captives, is being completely delusional. Because the people in charge, the people who created the rules, and were controlling the wealth, were not re-captives from Congo. They were blacks, whose families had been in US America for a lot of years. The party that controlled Liberia from 1878 to 1980, was the True Whig Party, basically a copy of the Republican Party.
Liberia is a case, where descendants of former slaves, adopted everything from their slave masters, and tried to re-create that on another place. Basically what people from São Tomé and Cape Verde have been trying to do, unsuccessfully, in Angola for years. Force native angolans to adopt iberian costumes, just because most of them are descendants or mixed with iberians. And send most of our money to Portugal.
PS: Free people of color and free negros, were not slaves themselves, but descendants of slaves. So, saying that they were not AAs, because they were not slaves, doesn't make much sense.
Granville T. Woods, was a free negro, not a slave. But descendant of slaves. Are we going to say that he was not AA?
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Being a freed Guinea slave I guess would disqualify him as an AA, as opposed to a freed American slave.
Being a freed Guinea slave I guess would disqualify him as an AA, as opposed to a freed American slave.
There is a congotown in Monrovia and Sierra Leone. back then "Congo people" were seperate and didn't hold any political influence, wealth or power. And they never did.