Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma
…apital, Monrovia, was so named in 1824 to honor another slavery-supporting Southerner who happened to occupy the White House at the time: President James Monroe. And while some early proponents of colonization, like William Lloyd Garrison, would later become Abolitionists, the majority—who were well-entrenched within America’s best colleges, as Craig Wilder notes in his book Ebony and Ivy—clashed openly with abolitionists and “race mixers.” By the…
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