Founded as a haven for freed American slaves, it became an independent country in 1847
..........The continent also became a focus of East-West conflict when ..... 
slaves in 1822 and declared an independent republic in 1847) and... [DOC] [TLE] American Colonization Society and the Founding of Liberia ... [PAR] After blacks, slave and free, had fought in the American Revolution and the War 
of ... John E. Howard, former governor of Maryland; General Andrew Jackson, .....