Elijah Johnson Quotes
Two years long have I sought a home; here I have found it; here I remain.
The first Black American colonists founding Liberia, like many early settlers in a new land, had many early difficulties and many of the settlers wanted to abandon the effort and return to America. This famous statement turned the attitudes around and Liberia was founded
Elijah Johnson Statement when many of the Early Black American Colonists were thinking of abandoning the colony of Liberia ~1822
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Elijah Johnson was an African American who was one of the first colonial agents of the American Colonization Society in what later became Liberia. He was probably born in New Jersey, and received some limited schooling in New Jersey and New York. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812 and studied for the Methodist ministry.
