On This Day February 6

The first 86 African American immigrants left New York on February 6, 1820 to start a settlement in present-day Liberia. The emigrants started to establish a settlement on what is now the coast of Liberia. All three whites and 22 of the emigrants died within three weeks from yellow fever.
The settlement was named Liberia, which is "Land of the Free" in Latin, because it was founded by freed American slaves.

Map of Liberia in the 1830s

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