Kentucky in Africa

Kentucky in Africa
Kentucky in Africa
1828–c. 1847
Status	Colony (American Colonization Society)
Capital	Clay-Ashland
Historical era	Imperialism
• Established	1828
• Disestablished	c. 1847
Area
• Total	100 km2 (39 sq mi)
Preceded by
	American Colonization Society
Today part of	Liberia

Kentucky in Africa was a colony in present-day Montserrado County, Liberia, founded in 1828 and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves. A state affiliate of the American Colonization Society, the Kentucky State Colonization Society raised money to transport people of color from Kentucky—freeborn volunteers as well as enslaved individuals set free on the condition that they leave the United States for Liberia.^[1] The Kentucky society bought a 40-square-mile (100 km²) site along the Saint Paul River (quite near the site of the present-day capital city of Monrovia) and named it Kentucky in Africa.^[1] Clay-Ashland. named after Henry Clay's Ashland Plantation, was the colony's primary settlement.^[1]

Notable residents of Kentucky in Africa include Alfred Francis Russell, the 10th President of Liberia, and William D. Coleman, the 13th President of Liberia, whose family settled in Clay-Ashland after emigrating from Fayette County, Kentucky.^[2]^[3]

Kentucky in Africa was annexed by Liberia in about 1847.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Kentucky in Africa" (special edition of Kentucky Life), Kentucky Educational Television (August 15, 2005).
^ "President William David Coleman 1896 – 1900". Liberia Past And Present. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
^ "A Letter from Liberia: Reverend Alfred F. Russell to Robert Wickliffe in Lexington, Kentucky (July 3, 1855)". Bluegrass Community & Technical College. Archived from the original on February 22, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
^ Anyanwu, Ogechi E.; Day, Lisa; Farrington, Joshua; Graham, Gwendolyn; Powell, Norman (2022). "6". Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (PDF) (2nd ed.). Richmond, Kentucky: Encompass Digital Archive and Eastern Kentucky University. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-7343289-1-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

[ket-1] "Kentucky in Africa" (special edition of Kentucky Life), Kentucky Educational Television (August 15, 2005).

[2] "President William David Coleman 1896 – 1900". Liberia Past And Present. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2008.

[3] "A Letter from Liberia: Reverend Alfred F. Russell to Robert Wickliffe in Lexington, Kentucky (July 3, 1855)". Bluegrass Community & Technical College. Archived from the original on February 22, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2008.

[4] Anyanwu, Ogechi E.; Day, Lisa; Farrington, Joshua; Graham, Gwendolyn; Powell, Norman (2022). "6". Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (PDF) (2nd ed.). Richmond, Kentucky: Encompass Digital Archive and Eastern Kentucky University. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-7343289-1-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

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