Liberia 5-20 Dollars 2016-7 P31-3 Unc

If you were to walk down the streets of Monrovia in the humid, salt-tinged air of the 1950s, you would eventually encounter a presence that seemed as permanent as the tides and as inevitable as the tropical rain. He might be found waving from a convertible, holding court at his farm in Totota, or staring down from a portrait in a government office, invariably dressed in a tailcoat and Homburg hat, a cigar often clamped firmly between his teeth. This was William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman—"Uncle Shad" to the masses, "The Old Man" to his inner circle, and the undisputed President of Liberia for twenty-seven years.1 next...

It’s not every day you hear about a man who starts life as a barber’s apprentice in Virginia and ends up as the first president of an entirely new African republic. But then again, Joseph Jenkins Roberts was anything but ordinary. next...

If you look at the history of the American Midwest in the early 19th century, you don’t often hear stories about Black men becoming real estate tycoons and then sailing off to become heads of state. But that is exactly what Edward James Roye did. next...