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 | | In a series of incidents, on present day Bushrod Island, Captain Stockton forced King Peter and other indigenous rulers of the cape, at the barrel of a gun, to sign a treaty, which ceded land from the indigenous people to the African-American settlers. |
 | | Ambassador Padmore was appointed Assistant Secreatry of State of Liberia in 1951; in 1955, he served as Acting Secretary of State, when Secretary of State Gabriel L. Dennis Died; and he served as Liberia's Ambassador to the United States from 1956 to 1961. |
 | | In 1930, the Liberia Government was faced with a major political crisis, when the League of Nations appointed the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia", to investigate allegations of slavery and the forced recruitment of indigenous labor by the Liberian Government officials. |
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