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Joseph J. Roberts

(Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876)

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Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was an African-American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician. Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence, he was the first man of African descent to govern the country, serving previously as governor from 1841 to 1848. He later returned to office in the 1871 general election following the 1871 Liberian coup d'état. Born free in Norfolk, Virginia, Roberts emigrated as a young man with his mother, siblings, wife, and child to the young West African colony. He opened a trading firm in Monrovia and later engaged in politics. (From Wikipedia)

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Virginia's Ninth President, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, ed. by C. W. Tazewell (HTML with commentary at educationalsynthesis.org)

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Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876: African colonization ... (New York : A Branch Office of the American Colonization Society, 1869., 1869), also by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876: African colonization; an address delivered at the fifty-second annual meeting of the American Colonization Society held in Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 1869. (American Colonization Society, 1869), also by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876: Calumny refuted by facts from Liberia; with extracts from the inaugural address of the coloured President Roberts; an eloquent speech of Hilary Teage, a coloured senator (C. Gilpin;, 1848), also by Wilson Armistead, H. H. Garnett, and Hilary Teage (page images at HathiTrust)
Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876, contrib.: Calumny Refuted by Facts From Liberia: With Extracts From the Inaugural Address of the Coloured President Roberts; an Eloquent Speech of Hilary Teage, a Coloured Senator; and Extracts From a Discourse by H. H. Garnett, a Fugitive Slave, on the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. Presented to the Boston Anti-slavery Bazaar, U.S., By the Author of "A Tribute for the Negro.", by Wilson Armistead, also contrib. by Henry Highland Garnet and Hilary Teage (Gutenberg ebook)
Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876: The Regina Coeli: correspondence between the Hon. James H. Hammond and John H.B. Latrobe. (Printed by J.D. Toy, 1858), also by John H. B. Latrobe and James Henry Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)

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