Mississippi-in-Africa

Mississippi-in-Africa

In the history of Liberia, Mississippi-in-Africa was a colony settled by freed African-American slaves in present-day Sinoe County, Liberia. It existed from 1835 until 1842, when it was incorporated into the Commonwealth of Liberia. It is also the title of a nonfiction book about the recolonization effort (Alan Huffman, Gotham Books, 2004).

Governors

Term Incumbent Notes
1835 Mississippi and Louisiana State Colonization societies found Mississippi-in-Africa colony
June 1837 to 10 September 1838 Josiah Finley, Governor
1842 Incorporation into the Commonwealth of Liberia

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