Notable Repatriated People
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts - first President of Liberia and founding father
- Thomas Peters (black leader) - African American Black Loyalist leader and founder of Freetown, Sierra Leone
- William Coleman - President of Liberia
- Stephen Allen Benson - President of Liberia
- David George - African American Baptist preacher
- Boston King - African American Methodist missionary
- Henry Washington - African-born slave to first U.S. President George Washington
- Daniel Coker - African American missionary to Sierra Leone
- Edward Jones (missionary) - American missionary to Sierra Leone
- Edward J. Roye - President of Liberia, and first president from the True Whig Party
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