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"

  • coatimundi [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Why? They speak the same language, live the same lifestyle. Seems to me like the only things that separate them are the remnants of segregation.

    • FidelCastro [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      remnants of segregation

      There are no "remnants", it's still happening. If you're Brazilian and aren't from the states, then I get not understanding the difference between cultures, but trust me when I say that there is one.