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Liberia

The saga of Liberia’s beginnings reflects both America’ humanitarian generosity and its racism.

I have a confession. Last year, when Americans were asked to help feed the survivors of civil war in Rwanda, I had to go to the atlas to find out where Rwanda was.

For some men the only solution to the dilemma of blacks and whites together was for the blacks to go back where they came from

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