New Liberia from Old, What about the Early History and Conflict. A Book on Liberia History Although founded not as an independent nation, but as quasi-colony of the American Colonization Society (ACS, ) Americo-Liberians fairly immediately chose to declare sovereignty to protect themselves from British or French intrusion, although with no guarantee of protection or any colonial relationship with the US. The new nation was now composed of Americo-Liberian...