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Elmcroft1096 t1_jb0tmfy wrote

Reply to comment by phillipgoodrich in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

Anither issue I remember reading about Liberia is that Abolitionists thought of Africa as one large homogeneous place, ignoring the various regions inhabited by different tribes and nations that the African American slaves or their ancestors had come from initially.

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phillipgoodrich t1_jb36ghz wrote

Indeed, thus contributing not only to the racist concept, but the impracticality of the entire enterprise.

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