Presidents

Bio Liberia’s second president was born in Cambridge, Maryland, USA, in 1816. His parents were free people of color. Benson and his family moved to the colony on the brig Strong in 1822 when he was six years old. His father James worked as a soldier keeping guard over the settlement to prevent attacks from […]

Bio Joe Roberts was born of slave parents in Petersburg, Virginia, USA in 1809. He taught himself to read and write, and as a young boy, worked as a cabin boy and deck laborer on the Appomattox River boats. Having lost his father at the age, the young Roberts used most of his hard earned […]