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Americo-Liberian

Americo-Liberians were the relatively wealthy elite of Liberia.

The were descended from slaves freed in the 1820s in America, and adopted a Christian lifestyle and lived on the coast.

Under their rule the economy of Liberia rapidly developed.

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