The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. Liberia
Republic in western Africa , bordered by Sierra Leone to the northwest, Guinea to the north, the Ivory Coast to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. 1 ‡ The American Colonization Society began settlement of black Americans, most of them freed slaves, in 1822. Eventually, 15,000 blacks emigrated to Liberia. 2 ‡ A civil war that commenced in 1989 and that lasted until the mid-1990s claimed more than 150,000 lives. 3
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
