Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Americo-Liberians are a Liberian ethnicity of African-American descent. The sister ethnic group of Americo Liberians are the Sierra Leone Creole people, who are of African-American, West Indian, and liberated African descent. Americo Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans who immigrated in the 19th century to become founders of Liberia. They identified there as Americo Liberians. (Some African Americans, following resettlement in Canada, also participated as founding settlers in Sierra Leone and present-day Cote d'Ivoire.Later in Liberia, these African Americans integrated 5,000 liberated Africans called Congos (former slaves from the Congo Basins, who were freed by British and Americans from slave ships after prohibition of the African slave trade) and 346 Barbadian immigrants into the hegemony. Like the Creoles of Freetown, Americos rarely intermarried with Native Africans. The colonists and their descendants, known as Americo-Liberians, led the political, social, cultural and economic sectors of the country; they ruled the new nation for over 130 years as a dominant minority. For the first 133 years after independence, the Republic of Liberia was a one-party state ruled by the Americo-Liberian dominated True Whig Party.. }
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- Americo-Liberian abstract "Americo-Liberians are a Liberian ethnicity of African-American descent. The sister ethnic group of Americo Liberians are the Sierra Leone Creole people, who are of African-American, West Indian, and liberated African descent. Americo Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans who immigrated in the 19th century to become founders of Liberia. They identified there as Americo Liberians. (Some African Americans, following resettlement in Canada, also participated as founding settlers in Sierra Leone and present-day Cote d'Ivoire.Later in Liberia, these African Americans integrated 5,000 liberated Africans called Congos (former slaves from the Congo Basins, who were freed by British and Americans from slave ships after prohibition of the African slave trade) and 346 Barbadian immigrants into the hegemony. Like the Creoles of Freetown, Americos rarely intermarried with Native Africans. The colonists and their descendants, known as Americo-Liberians, led the political, social, cultural and economic sectors of the country; they ruled the new nation for over 130 years as a dominant minority. For the first 133 years after independence, the Republic of Liberia was a one-party state ruled by the Americo-Liberian dominated True Whig Party.".