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2 unusual facts about Joseph Jenkins Roberts


Ivory Coast Expedition

Early in the morning of November 29, a party of seventy-five marines and sailors landed at Sinoe where Perry had a meeting, or palaver, with Governor Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia and his staff as well as the "twenty kings" to discuss the earlier incidents.

Joseph Jenkins Roberts

After starting as a trader, the youngest son, Henry Roberts, studied medicine at the Berkshire Medical College in Massachusetts.



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