Monrovia, May 8 -- Five generations ago, a hardy group of men and women took off from the "transit point" in which their forefathers had been made to languish for over two centuries, to return home. They would come to be known as the Croziervillians (or, move affectionately, "Cora's kids").

By Dr. Kettehkumeh Murray, Contributing Writer

On 6 April 1865, a mass immigration of British subjects headed to Liberia on the promise of getting a citizenship and land to farm and breath the sweet air of liberty from which their fathers had been separated for two centuries; and they, generations later, could only dream of. The arrangements were concluded between the British Governor-General of Barbados and President Daniel Bashell Warner (third pr...