5 entries
Treaties & documents · 1807 (Britain), 1808 (United States)
The abolition acts of 1807–08
The statutes ending the legal Atlantic slave trade — and the legal machinery that produced the Liberia project.
Treaties & documents · April 1840
The Buchanan Treaty of Perpetual Peace
Agreement between Governor Thomas Buchanan and neighbouring kings ending slave-trading in their jurisdictions.
Treaties & documents · 15 December 1821
The Ducor Contract
The founding deed of Liberia — a cession of the Cape Mesurado ground obtained under armed coercion.
Treaties & documents · November–December 1822
The engagements at Cape Mesurado, 1822
The attacks on the settlement at Crown Hill and the negotiated peace that followed them.
Treaties & documents · sailed 6 February 1820
The ship Elizabeth
The first ACS emigrant voyage: 88 passengers from New York to Sierra Leone under naval convoy.