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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/arthurblakey on 2024-02-02 15:34:53.

Original Title: TIL that Liberia, Africa was founded in the early 1800s by the American Colonization Society (ACS), a group of Afro-Americans/Afro-Caribbeans, funded largely by white Americans. Liberia was run by the minority descendants of the Americo-Liberians until the assassination of President Tolbert in 1980.