The Public Execution of the President of Liberia William Tolbert and his Cabinet, 1980.
The Public Execution of the President of Liberia William Tolbert and his Cabinet, 1980. 10 years before Liberia's President Samuel Doe met his fate - also a gruesome televised torture and murder - then known as Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, he had presided over the public execution of members of the Cabinet he had just overthrown. In 1847, with the support of US President Monroe and subsequent US Governments uneasy with the growing population of freed slaves in America, emancipated former African-American slaves settled in Africa and declared the territory the Independent republic of Liberia. Between 1847 and 1980 the State of Liberia was dominated by the minority Americo-Liberians who then marginalized the majority native Liberians with whom they had uneasy relations with, viewing them as an 'inferior' race and treating them much the same as the ex-slaves had been treated in America. Brutal Americo-Liberian State repression, plantation quasi-slavery, economic and social mar