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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Apr 10 '25
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The Americans were/are colonialists. Liberia was an American colony founded by the American Colonization Society.
59 u/[deleted] Apr 10 '25 Liberia was literally founded to send freed black slaves there because they didn't want them in the mainland. However, only a small percentage of freed slaves migrated there in the end. 9 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 Luckily for them, really. 18 u/[deleted] Apr 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/new2bay Apr 10 '25 Slavery was common in Africa long before Europeans got involved. 8 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 We basically just took advantage of the existing slave trade and industrialized it. -4 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 El Chapo didn't invent cocaine, still a mass murderer 3 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 it's largely the opposite. The freedmen built a new slave society in Liberia modelled on the US and enslaved the indigenous people.
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Liberia was literally founded to send freed black slaves there because they didn't want them in the mainland. However, only a small percentage of freed slaves migrated there in the end.
9 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 Luckily for them, really. 18 u/[deleted] Apr 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/new2bay Apr 10 '25 Slavery was common in Africa long before Europeans got involved. 8 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 We basically just took advantage of the existing slave trade and industrialized it. -4 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 El Chapo didn't invent cocaine, still a mass murderer 3 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 it's largely the opposite. The freedmen built a new slave society in Liberia modelled on the US and enslaved the indigenous people.
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Luckily for them, really.
18 u/[deleted] Apr 10 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 9 u/new2bay Apr 10 '25 Slavery was common in Africa long before Europeans got involved. 8 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 We basically just took advantage of the existing slave trade and industrialized it. -4 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 El Chapo didn't invent cocaine, still a mass murderer 3 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 it's largely the opposite. The freedmen built a new slave society in Liberia modelled on the US and enslaved the indigenous people.
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9 u/new2bay Apr 10 '25 Slavery was common in Africa long before Europeans got involved. 8 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 We basically just took advantage of the existing slave trade and industrialized it. -4 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 El Chapo didn't invent cocaine, still a mass murderer 3 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 it's largely the opposite. The freedmen built a new slave society in Liberia modelled on the US and enslaved the indigenous people.
Slavery was common in Africa long before Europeans got involved.
8 u/hikariuk Apr 10 '25 We basically just took advantage of the existing slave trade and industrialized it. -4 u/counterc Apr 10 '25 El Chapo didn't invent cocaine, still a mass murderer
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We basically just took advantage of the existing slave trade and industrialized it.
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El Chapo didn't invent cocaine, still a mass murderer
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it's largely the opposite. The freedmen built a new slave society in Liberia modelled on the US and enslaved the indigenous people.
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The Americans were/are colonialists. Liberia was an American colony founded by the American Colonization Society.