Editing Demographics of Liberia (section)

===19th century immigrants===
*[[Americo-Liberians]]: Free black people and emancipated [[slavery|slave]]s, and their descendants, from the [[United States|U.S.]] and the [[Caribbean]]
*Congos is an eponymic term for "recaptives," people rescued from slave ships after the slave trade, not slavery itself, was abolished by Great Britain and the United States. These people were "repatriated" to Liberia (and Sierra Leone if rescued by the British) and their descendants. The term was used because many of these rescued Africans were thought to be from the Congo River Basin.<ref>Clegg 2004</ref><ref>Ciment 2013</ref><ref>Sundiata 2003</ref>