Liberia

Liberia is a small country in western Africa. It was founded on July 26, 1847 by settlers from the United States, and it became a US protectorate. Freed slaves from the US were encouraged to emigrate to Liberia, as were free blacks in the country after the War of Secession.

In 1882, Frederick Douglass, discouraged by the US's defeat in the Second Mexican War and the subsequent rise in racism, was tempted to emigrate to Liberia but decided that would be shirking his responsibilities to his countrymen and members of his race in North America.

In the Great War, Liberia was formally aligned with the Central Powers, though Liberian forces saw very little military action. Liberia granted diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Quebec.