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History of Liberia in maps
Liberia as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1917 to 2015: Liberia. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Liberia before it was Liberia? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Liberia · Industrial Revolution
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Liberia · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Liberia · Road to WW2
| Neutral & unaligned — the opening position |
ROAD TO WW2: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Liberia · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Liberia · Decolonization of Africa
Founded from 1822 by the American Colonization Society as a settlement for freed Black Americans and declared a republic in 1847, Liberia was — with Ethiopia — one of only two African states never colonized, which is why it sits in parchment on this map from the start. Yet its Americo-Liberian elite ruled the indigenous majority for over a century, an ambiguity inside the story of African freedom, until Samuel Doe’s bloody 1980 coup ended the old order. A founding member of the OAU — and a reminder that formal sovereignty and internal liberty are not the same thing.
| Independent before 1945 — the opening position |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Liberia · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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