Bassa

Bassa country extends along the rivers and forests of the Liberian coast. Its communities cultivated land and traded with neighbours and visiting ships on a shore known to Europeans for malagueta pepper. In the 1820s the arrival of settlers sponsored by the American Colonization Society at Cape Mesurado brought a new and often violent struggle over land. Bassa, Dey and Gola forces resisted the new settlement, whose expansion altered relations along the coast.

The later city of Buchanan lies here.