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LIBERIA

THE LIBERTY OF SPIRIT

Samuel Phillips

certainly cannot say I am knowledgeable in about the nations in Afrika. I love Afrika to bits
history, especially, African history. However, I and will do whatever is necessary in God for the
pick up bits and pieces of things here and there. emancipation of my people.
I writing about Liberia will not necessarily be Liberia is a nation within Afrika with such a unique
So
from the space of historical events but from the story that is very similar to the Hebrews and it’s
space of the mind of God for that nation and why from those similarities that I will try to tell the tale
her history took the direction that it took. And while of what I believe God would have me share about
this is about Liberia, it is also very much more Liberia.
about Afrika as a whole. Bits and pieces of history
will be added to help give a clear explanation of A Unique Story
what this article is about. It is not written to make Liberia is often described as one of two African
historical correctness but to give an understanding countries to have remained independent during
of what the mind of God holds for Liberia and for the European Scramble for Africa, but this is
Afrika as a whole. misleading, as the country was founded by African-
Afrika has come a long way in her history and Americans in the 1820s. These Americo-Liberians
unique placement in the global space and thus it governed the country until 1989, when they were
always gives me joy to be able to write something overthrown in a coup. Liberia was governed by

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