The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia http://libgen.li/item/index.php?md5=28C51308F215E77FA12EEA0E3A25F329

...But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.

broke: read Settlers

woke: read Settlers but replace America with Africa and replace "white" with "black", and replace "black" with "indigenous black"

  • FidelCastro [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Okay, now I get what you were trying to communicate and I agree with you. Heads up: Linking back to that comment which was already unclear was counter productive, comrade.

    • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Well, it felt to me like a lot of people were saying the same thing that I had already replied to, and I got frustrated. It would be nice if one could turn off inbox notifications for replies.

      Anyway, thanks!