Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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The first successful settlement was established in 1822, after an agreement with the local chiefs signed in 1821 granted the society possession of Cape Mesurado.
Now, some free Black Americans had advocated return to Africa projects long before the ACS was even founded.
So we shouldn't erase the agency in this, but the ACS was led by a mix of white abolitionists and white enslavers who mostly just wanted to rid themselves of the free Black population in the US.
Most free Black Americans opposed the project, either initially or in time.
Those Black Americans that did participate came to be known as Americo-Liberians.
They carried on the American Colonization Society's narrative that the establishment of Liberia was a return to the promised land, an exodus of formerly enslaved people returning to their ancestral homeland to establish an independent land of freedom.
And as a minority in that land, the Americo-Liberians would establish a government and various settlements they ruled that would attempt to expand Liberia's initial territory and bring civilization and Christianity to the natives.
Those that went were clearly heavily influenced by their American background, viewing themselves culturally, socially, and educationally superior to the native African ethnic groups they encountered.
After a few decades of support from the American Colonization Society, independence was declared in 1847, but only recognized by the U.S.
in 1862.
They also very quickly fell into a deteriorating economic situation marked by heavy foreign debt obligations, culminating in multinational intervention and oversight in the early 1900s, as well as the establishment of a million-acre rubber plantation for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which would exploit the indigenous people in Liberia for decades to come.
Any time you're setting up a rubber plantation, I feel like that should be a...
a massive red flag that you're one of the bad guys.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
People who have been subject to settler colonial violence and to like racially motivated, sound like a cop when I say racially motivated violence, like the violence inherent in racism and capitalism.
The idea that the way to kind of right those wrongs is to become the one doing the violence, not the one subject to the violence.
I see it in Myanmar, right?
Like a country that was brutally colonized by the country that I was born in, but in which essentially today the state rules.
of Myanmar is itself a colonial entity, right?
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