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Liberian Declaration of Independence
Ratified26 July 1847
Author(s)Hilary Teague
Signatories11 delegates and one secretary to the Liberian Constitutional Convention
PurposeTo announce and explain independence from the American Colonization Society.
The eleven stripes of the Flag of Liberia represent the eleven signers of the Declaration
Plaque commemorating signing of Liberian Declaration of Independence.

The Liberian Declaration of Independence is a document adopted by the Liberian Constitutional Convention on 26 July 1847, to announce that the Commonwealth of Liberia, a colony founded and controlled by the private American Colonization Society, was an independent state known as the Republic of Liberia.

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