Original sentence: African American.Americo-Liberians are ethnic Liberians of Mulatto descent.Believing Christianity(or a combo with voodoo) and speaking African American Vernacular English, they stood within their own country and didn't venture or mingle with interior African peoples.Some 13,000 created Liberia between 1817 and 1867 with the American Colonization Society.They are descended from former American slaves, freed blacks who immigrated in the 1800s to become Founding Fathers of Liberia from the United States
Edited sentence: Americo-Liberians are the relatively wealthy elite of Liberia.Having adopted Christianity and the English language, they lived on the coast, forming a culture very different from that of the indigenous Africans who lived in the interior.Some 13,000 were settled in Liberia between 1817 and 1867 by the American Colonization Society.They are descended from former American slaves, freed blacks who immigrated in the 1800s to Liberia from the United States.Under their rule the economy of Liberia rapidly developed, but their power rested largely on the repression and exploitation of the indigenous African majority