1. For example, in M. Crowder,West Africa under Colonial Rule(Hutchinson and Co., London, 1968), only six references are made to Liberia, in general terms. Similarly, L. H. Gann and P. Duignan (eds.)Colonialism in Africa 1870–1960(Cambridge University Press), vol. I (1969), vol. II (1970), and V. Turner (ed.),Colonialism in Africa 1870–1960, vol. III (1971) together make only tangential mention of Liberia, although they admit that she extended her domain during the Partition period (vol. I, p. 109), and that her Government “was based on a narrow ruling stratum of Afro-American settlers and their descendants” (vol. I, p. 464; also: vol. II, p. 1; vol. III, p. 275). J. Suret-Canale'sFrench Colonialism in Tropical Africa 1900–1945(C. Hurst and Co.: London, 1971) deals, of course, with the French colonies, and makes only two references to Liberia (pp. 42, 104).
2. J. D. Hargreaves, “Liberia: the Price of Independence” inOdu: A Journal of West African Studies, New Series, no. 6 (October 1972), p. 3.
3. Liberia Bulletin, no. 16, February 1900, p. 28. Hereafter,Liberia Bulletinwill be referred to asBulletin.
4. Excepting Harper and neighbouring settlements in Maryland-in-Liberia, which did not become part of the Republic of Liberia till 1857.