Sarah Ann Bourne is known as the godmother of #Barbados ๐ง๐ง people in #Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท.
In 1865 she organized a migration of 40 Barbadian families back to Africa.
Sarah founded the town of Crozerville in Liberia.
She also is the mom of President Arthur Barclay
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Sarah Ann Bourne was born a free woman of Color in Barbados ๐ง๐ง ๐ฌ๐ง in 1795.
She was born to a black mother, London Bourne, a founder of the Caribbean back to Africa movement.
Despite being a free woman she was treated as inferior to any European in Barbados.
Sadly London Bourne never lived to see Africa.
Sarah studied to be a teacher. She gained great respect for her teaching in Barbados(teaching was a prestigious job).
During her studies she met with some Liberians visiting Barbados.
There they told Sarah that the President๐ฑ๐ท wanted Caribbean Black people to immigrate to Liberia and not just have African American repatriates.
Seeing a chance to fulfill her and her deceased motherโs dreams Sarah agreed to leave Barbados for Liberia along with her family.
Her and her mother being big voices in the back to Africa movement inspired at-least 40 other families to join her 350 people in total.
In 1865 together with their 11 kids Sarah and her husband Anthony Barclay boarded the Cora, and sailed to Monrovia Liberia.
When the immigrating Barbados repatriates arrived in Liberia the government welcomed them with open arms and gave them citizenship.
They sent them to settle a site in the north of Montserrado county.
There Sarah and the Caribbean families founded Crozerville in 1865.
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Sarah Bourne Barclay is the reason Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท and Barbados ๐ง๐ง share deep ties.
Sarah had a huge effect on Liberian history introducing an entire new community to Liberia.
Sarah Barclays family line even produced two great Liberian Presidents.
On November 12 1985 President Doe was nearly overthrown.
Ex ally General Quiwonkpa attempted a coup to end Doeโs tyrannical rule over #Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท.
Liberian #history wouldโve changed if not for soldiers from #Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ who came to aid of Doe.
These events led to civil war.
After the 1980 Coup the โPeopleโs Redemption Councilโ governed Liberia.
They invited members of the former opposition, the Progressive Alliance to help govern the Country.
They would end up leaving the government when it was clear the PRC was just a bunch of corrupt thieves.
Even members of the PRC became concerned when Doe began killing dissidents, and his rivals in the council.
It was obvious to everyone Liberia was coming under the one man rule of a corrupt murdering maniac.
In 1985 General Quiwonkpa organized a Coup against the Doe Regime.
The 1980 coup in #Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท altered the course of the countryโs #history. The Coup was supposedly led by illiterate Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe.
He didnโt really plan the coup against President Tolbert however, he served greater #CIA ๐บ๐ธ interest.
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Liberia in the late 70s was going through turbulent times. Long standing issues such as the price of food, wealth inequality and political freedom where present.
Former President William Tubman was able to keep everything stable, but the current President Tolbert wasnโt as adept.
Despite his flaws and lack of charisma, William Tolbert was much more bolder with his foreign policy than his predecessor.
Tolbert fully embraced Pan Africanism, new African states, training leftist ANC anti apartheid Guerrillas in Liberia, and had relations with the socialists.
Stop ๐ praising Gaddafi
Gaddafi helped train Charles Taylor in #Libya ๐ฑ๐พ while he was already a known fugitive and wanted by #Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท and Foday Sankoh.
Gaddafis ideas of Arab nationalism and revolution would ruin the lives of countless Africans. #Africanhistory a Thread๐งตโฆ
After mysteriously being released prison from the United States enroute to Liberia Charles Taylor went to Libya where he received training in warfare along with Foday Sankoh, the founder of the notorious RUF rebel group of Sierra Leone.
Gaddafi backed these two people because he saw them as part of a greater scheme to attain Pharonic control of Africa, but Charles Taylor was difficult to control after he took over Liberia.
Politics aside Gaddafi armed rebel groups responsible for thousands of deaths.
In 1520 an exiled warrior princess๐ธ๐ฟ from the collapsing Mali empire invaded what is now #SierraLeone ๐ธ๐ฑ and #Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท.
Her invasion would change the history of the Windward coast.๐จ
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After offending the king(some say after rejecting his advances) Princess Magbete was banished from the Mansas capital city.
The Princess left with many followers to forge a new kingdom for herself.
She led a migration that would be the beginning and the end for many tribesโฆ
The Princess marched south too the coastal forest of the Windward coast.
As the group marched south they encountered, like Gbandi, and Kpelle people. The host defeated and absorbed more tribes and began too snowball.
At first they fought and defeated mostly Kwa speaking peoples.
People often say Africans didnt care about their own people across the Atlantic.
Kongo kingdom went to war with the Portuguese Empire ๐ต๐น defeating them at the Battle of Mbabda Kasi forcing the Portuguese too return thousands of enslaved Kongo citizens #Africa#Angola#History a๐งต
In the 1620s The Portuguese empire wanted to expand their rule and their slave trade in the Congo region.
Wishing too take out the kingdoms of Ndongo and Kongo, the Portuguese allied with a local cannibal militaristic cult known as the Imbangala in a pact to defeat and enslaveโฆ
The citizens of both kingdoms.
Portugal would backstab their former ally Kongo and invade the kingdom.
At the battle of Mbumbi the 10,000. Portuguese and 20,000. Imbangala merchandise would overwhelm 3000 Kongo soldiers.
Many towns where burnt and thousands enslaved.
In the 1850s a society called the Maryland colonization society wanted to repatriate its enslaved black population back too west Africa
As the freedmen made it too the windward coast and formed their own settlement they grew tired of the Maryland society and declared Independence
in 1853. The decision to cutoff ties with the United States was unanimous.
The new countries interest turned to more local affairs such as wiping out the local slave trade in the area.
The African American settlers where initially welcomed by theirโฆ