Liberia: History of the First African Republican, Volume 2

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The late Attorney General of Liberia C. Abayomi Cassell published the first volume of his Liberia: History of the first African Republic, in 1970, and promised a second volume. After many years, the second volume is only now being published posthumously. Both volumes of the work are eye-witness accounts of Liberias political and presidential history. The two key witnesses are the authors father, the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Henry Benedict Cassell (18721939), and the author himself (19061986). The elder Cassell was a priest in the Episcopal Church and president of Liberia College (now the University of Liberia) from 1918 to1935. This Volume II starts with Colemans second term in January 1900, a term that was truncated by his resignation in December 1900. It then continues the chronicling to 1952, the end of the first eight-year term of President William V. S. Tubman (19441971).

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C. Abayomi Cassell (19061986) was the Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia, and the Chairman of the Liberian delegation to the first General Assembly of the United Nations in 1946.