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by jimmynopension 2145 days ago
It's very rare for anyone to talk about the efforts made by some institutions to give power and wealth away in restorative colonialist experiments, for example the American Colonization Society.

We have decades of socio-economic data about Liberia covering all aspects of development since its creation as a colony for freed slaves.

I have never heard anyone debate the terrible experiment of Liberia which is today one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world, despite it being founded and governed by its own free people and independent from any other nation for over 170 years.

It is one of the purest split tests in human civilisation but few know it exists and even fewer want to learn anything from it.