Liberian Americans are Americans who are of Liberian descent. This includes Liberians who are of African American descent. It also includes the descendants of Americo-Liberian people in America. The first wave of Liberians to the United States after of the slavery period was after of the First Liberian Civil War in the 1980s and then after the Second Liberian Civil War in the early 2000s. An estimated 100000 Liberians live in the U.S. as of this time.
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