Qualla: Robertsport https://qualla.com/robertsport en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/y/robertsport-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Robertsport https://qualla.com/robertsport Robertsport: Introduction https://qualla.com/robertsport/ Photo credit Bethel. Anthony Chisom, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the hills above the beach stand houses that look as if they wandered in from the American South - tall, plantation-style homes with wide porches, lining broad avenues that lean against the slope. They are decrepit now, paint peeling, roofs sagging, survivors of two civil wars. They were built by people whose grandparents had been enslaved in the United States and who crossed an ocean to build a republic in their ancestral continent. This is Robertsport, capital of Grand Cape Mount County, and its weathered grandeur tells a story far stranger and more layered than its present life as a sleepy fishing town would suggest.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/y/robertsport-wp/e9py-robertsport-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Robertsport: Cape of the Mountain https://qualla.com/robertsport/ Photo credit Global Photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Portuguese saw it first from the sea. In the mid-fifteenth century the navigator Pedro de Sintra rounded a thousand-foot granite headland rising green from the Atlantic and named it Cabo do Monte - Cape Mount. The cape became a landmark for centuries of sailors, and not all o...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/y/robertsport-wp/e9py-robertsport-cape-of-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full Robertsport: Roberts's Port https://qualla.com/robertsport/ Photo credit Detlef Hansen, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name honors Joseph Jenkins Roberts, born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1809, who emigrated to Liberia as a young man and rose to become the country's first president when it declared independence in 1847. Robertsport - Roberts's port - was meant to be his namesake harbor, a town f...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/y/robertsport-wp/e9py-robertsport-robertss-port.mp3 0:06 3 full Robertsport: The Waves Nobody Was Watching https://qualla.com/robertsport/ Photo credit Bwoart, CC0. For most of its history, Robertsport's curving shoreline was simply where the fishermen launched their canoes. Then, after the Second Liberian Civil War ended in 2003, American visitors arrived and noticed what generations of fishermen had taken for granted: a series of long, pee...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/y/robertsport-wp/e9py-robertsport-the-waves-nobody-was-watching.mp3 0:06 4 full Robertsport: A Town That Endured https://qualla.com/robertsport/ Photo credit Fred van der Kraaij, CC BY-SA 4.0. Liberia's civil wars gutted the country, and Robertsport was not spared the looting. Yet the town remained structurally intact - those old settler houses still standing, battered but unbowed, on their wide avenues above the sea. Life here is hard and unhurried. St. Timothy Govern...

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