How Does Liberia's Name Reflect Its History? HD

HELP SUPPORT NAME EXPLAIN ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/nameexplain PRE-ORDER MY BOOK: http://bit.ly/originofnames TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NameExplainYT Thank you to all my Patrons for supporting the channel! SOURCES & FURTHER READING How Many Countries In Africa?: http://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-in-africa/ Generalising About Africa: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2015/06/generalizing-about-africa-why-its-a-bad-idea/ 15 Curious Things You Might Not Have Known About Liberia: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/articles/liberia-facts/ Liberia On Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/liberia Why the Name Liberia?: https://afrolegends.com/2014/02/18/why-the-name-liberia/ Liberia History Timeline: https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/liberia/lrtimeln.htm Was Liberia Founded By Freed U.S. Slaves?: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/07/was_liberia_founded_by_freed_us_slaves.html The American Colonisation Society: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1521.html Freed U.S. Slaves Depart On Journey To Africa: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/freed-u-s-slaves-depart-on-journey-to-africa PRONUNCIATION SOURCES Liberia: https://forvo.com/word/liberia/#en Sierra Leone: https://forvo.com/word/sierra_leone/#en Guinea: https://forvo.com/word/guinea/#en Côte d’Ivoire: https://forvo.com/word/c%C3%B4te_d%27ivoire/#fr George Weah: https://forvo.com/word/george_weah/#en Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: https://forvo.com/word/ellen_johnson_sirleaf/#en Digya Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/