BLACK HISTORY MOMENT:FIRST REPUBLIC SET UP BY FREED SLAVES

[Stephan Bobb]

FIRST REPUBLIC SET UP BY FREED SLAVES

July 27, 1847

After departing New York Port in 1820 the first group of freed blacks landed first in Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone and later moved on to Bushrod Island in what is today in Monrovia and established a state. By the 1847 the country declared its independence.