Early in the nineteenth century, returnees from the African Diaspora established an independent black nation on the west coast of Africa. Occupying a territory about the size of Pennsylvania, Liberia had been the homeland of about one and a half million natives who belonged to some sixteen different tribes. Taking advantage of the divisions among the natives, the approximately fifteen thousand Americo-Liberians soon became dominant and proceeded to oppress the natives. Commenting on the ill treatment, T. McCants Stewart, a black American visitor of the 188os, reported that "the natives of Liberia have been to the emigrants from America just what these ex-slaves were to the whites of the South. They have been…..made to feel that they were inferior beings."
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