Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Joris Van Dael and PG Distributed Proofreaders JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics present History–_Freeman_ NINTH SERIES X HISTORY OF LIBERIA BY J.H.T. McPHERSON, Ph.D. _Fellow in History, Johns Hopkins University, 1889; Instructor in History, University of Michigan,