One of the issues early abolitionists argued about was what to do with the slaves provided they ever received their freedom. One proposed solution was to transport them back to Africa, and a colony was set up on the African west coast for that purpose. The colony was called “Liberia,” and its capitol was Monrovia, named for the President of the United States James Monroe. Thousands of freed slaves and freemen eventually repatriated to Liberia.
This idea persisted into the 20th century. The best known advocate for African-Americans repatriating to Africa was Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s. Garvey also believed that African nations (then mostly colonies) should unite, and this doctrine is known as “Pan-Africanism. I wrote my college honors paper on that topic in 1964.
Trump, of course, knows no African history. He does not know the official language of Liberia is English. I’m sure he thinks of Liberia as just another “shithole” country, as he has referred to countries like Liberia in the past. Our president is basically an idiot.
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