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Clay-Ashland

Field	Value
official_name	Clay-Ashland
settlement_type	Township
pushpin_map	Liberia
pushpin_label_position	middle
pushpin_mapsize	200
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Liberia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	[[Image:Flag of Liberia.svg	25px]] Liberia
subdivision_type1	County
subdivision_name1	Montserrado County
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	St. Paul River
leader_title1
established_title	Established
established_date	1846
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Clay-Ashland is a township located 10 mi from the capital city of Monrovia in Liberia. The town is in the St. Paul River District of Montserrado County. It is named after Henry Clay — a slaveowner and American Colonization Society co-founder who favored gradual emancipation — and his estate Ashland in Lexington, Kentucky.

Established in 1846, Clay-Ashland was part of a colony called Kentucky In Africa, because it was settled by African-American immigrants primarily from the U.S. state of Kentucky under the auspices of the American Colonization Society.

History

A Kentucky state affiliate of the ACS was formed in 1828, and members raised money to transport Kentucky blacks — freeborn volunteers as well as slaves set free on the stipulation that they leave the United States — to Africa. The Kentucky society bought a 40 sqmi site along the Saint Paul River and named it Kentucky in Africa. Clay-Ashland was the colony's main town.

Notable residents have included William D. Coleman, the 13th President of Liberia, whose family settled in Clay-Ashland after immigrating from Fayette County, Kentucky, United States when he was a boy. Moses Ricks, a successful farmer and Baptist missionary who founded the still-running Ricks Institute in 1887 to provide a Christian education to indigenous youth in Liberia, also grew up in the town. Alfred Francis Russell, the 10th President of Liberia, also resided in Clay-Ashland. Martha Ann Erskine Ricks lived here after her father bought her out of slavery. In 1892 she received a Royal audience with Queen Victoria.

The True Whig Party, which dominated Liberian politics for more than a century, was founded in Clay-Ashland in 1869.

References

[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DA1E3DF934A35755C0A966958260 Kenneth B. Noble, "Leader Of Liberia Refusing To Quit", ''New York Times'', June 7, 1990]
(31 December 2005). "Liberia: Montserrado County". Humanitarian Information Centre.
[https://www.ket.org/program/kentucky-in-africa/ "Kentucky in Africa" (special edition of ''Kentucky Life'')], [[Kentucky Educational Television]] (Aug. 15, 2005).
"Liberia Past And Present, "President William David Coleman 1896 – 1900"".
[https://books.google.com/books?id=FaEs88IpUzEC&dq=%22moses+ricks%22+liberia&pg=PA77 Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970]
[http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/HIS/scraps/liberia2.html Bluegrass Community & Technical College, "A Letter from Liberia: Reverend Alfred F. Russell to Robert Wickliffe in Lexington, Kentucky", July 3, 1855]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ftz_gtO-pngC&dq=%22clay-ashland%22+liberia&pg=PA820 Kevin Shillington, ''Encyclopedia of African History'', 2005]
[http://www.cal.org/co/liberians/liberian_050406_1.pdf Donald A. Ranard, "Liberians: An Introduction to their History and Culture", Center for Applied Linguistics, April 2005] {{webarchive. link. (June 25, 2008)

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