Liberia

From Turtledove

Liberia is a small country in western Africa. Founded as a colony in 1822 by freed slaves from the United States, the area was already inhabited by various indigenous ethnic groups who had occupied the region for centuries. In 1847, the colony of freed slaves declared independence and founded the Republic of Liberia. In 1980, the government was overturned in a military coup, and from 1989 to 2005 Liberia was in a state of flux, witnessing two civil wars, the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003) that displaced hundreds of thousands of people and devastated the country's economy.

[edit] Liberia in Southern Victory

Liberia remained in the paltry U.S. sphere of influence after the Confederate States won its independence. Freed slaves from the US were encouraged to emigrate to Liberia, as were free blacks in the country after the War of Secession.

In 1882, Frederick Douglass, discouraged by the US's defeat in the Second Mexican War and the subsequent rise in racism, considered emigrating to Liberia, but decided that would be shirking his responsibilities to his countrymen and members of his race in North America.

During the Great War, Liberia was formally aligned with the Central Powers, although Liberian forces saw very little military action. Liberia granted diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Quebec in 1917.

[edit] Liberia in Worldwar

Liberia was easily conquered by the Race's Conquest Fleet shortly after that fleet arrived in 1942.