11 entries
Explorers & agents · 1834–1910
Benjamin J. K. Anderson
Liberian explorer whose journeys to Musardu documented the interior trade system from the inside.
Explorers & agents · Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, c. 1505–08
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Portuguese navigator and cosmographer whose rutter describes the Grain Coast's trade, peoples and hazards.
Explorers & agents · fl. 1821–1824
Eli Ayres
ACS agent and physician who negotiated for the Cape Mesurado ground and led the first settlement attempt.
Explorers & agents · 1894–1966; in Liberia 1926–1960
George Way Harley
Medical missionary at Ganta whose fieldwork produced the standard documentation of Poro, masks and medicine.
Explorers & agents · voyage of 1461
Pedro de Sintra
Portuguese navigator who charted and named the Liberian coast.
Explorers & agents · 1795–1866
Robert F. Stockton
U.S. naval officer who obtained the Cape Mesurado cession at pistol-point in December 1821.
Explorers & agents · 1820–1902; in Sierra Leone 1847–53
Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle
Missionary linguist whose Polyglotta Africana and Vai grammar recorded the languages and testimony of the region.
Explorers & agents · 1939–2017
Svend E. Holsoe
Historian of the Vai and the Condo Confederation; founder of the field of Liberian ethnohistory.
Explorers & agents · founded 1816
The American Colonization Society
The Washington society whose agents purchased Cape Mesurado, governed the colony until 1847, and named it Liberia.
Explorers & agents · compiled c. 1506–10
Valentim Fernandes
The Moravian printer in Lisbon whose compilation preserves the earliest detailed descriptions of the Grain Coast.
Explorers & agents · 1920–2014
Warren d'Azevedo
Anthropologist of the Gola whose work established oral tradition as usable historical evidence for this region.