Jane Roberts

Biography

Jane Rose Waring Roberts (née Waring; c. 1819 – January 10, 1914) emigrated as a child with her free African American family to the Colony of Liberia, where she was educated and grew up as a member of the Americo-Liberian community. She married politician Joseph Jenkins Roberts, also an American immigrant, who was appointed as governor of the colony.

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