The Liberian Struggle for Authority on the Kru Coast

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3913552
AutoresRonald W Davis (0000-0003-3123-2333, autor correspondente)
Ano1975
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas222
Data de publicação1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/216649
OpenAlexW2254448560
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23

In the autumn of 1915 tattered and faded Union Jacks unfurled all along the southern coast of the Republic of Liberia, a signal of rebellion by indigenous towns against the Monrovia government and a plea for British support. By June 1916, when the last pocket of resistance collapsed, a score of once thriving towns lay in ashes, thousands of Africans had fled to the interior, and nearly fifty rebel leaders awaited execution. A United States destroyer supported the largest and best-equipped military force ever assembled in Liberia. The Kru Coast rebellion of 1915 was the most serious uprising in Liberian history, but it presaged even graver difficulties in years to come. Symptomatic of the struggle for hegemony among indigenous Africans, Americo-Liberian colonists, and European traders, it began almost from the moment the first settlers arrived in 1822 and continues in sublimated forms today. The major beneficiary in this contest has been the Liberian government

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