Liberia was set up as an American colony for the repatriation of black American slaves. While it was not run as a settler colony or administered from the metropole on the French or British models, it was still very much a colonial state built on land that was previously the domain of Africans.[[User:Jacobin|Jacobin]] 01:20, 11 April 2007 (EDT) | Liberia was set up as an American colony for the repatriation of black American slaves. While it was not run as a settler colony or administered from the metropole on the French or British models, it was still very much a colonial state built on land that was previously the domain of Africans.[[User:Jacobin|Jacobin]] 01:20, 11 April 2007 (EDT) |