Liberia

Examples of Liberia in the following topics:

• Liberia

• Poverty

  • Liberia has a substantially lower GNI PPP than the United States, meaning that the nation's wealth is much lower.
  • Consequently, someone with an average income in Liberia has a substantially lower standard of living and much less access to resources than someone with an average income in the U.S.
  • By local standards of relative poverty, the wealthiest person in a town in Liberia is well-off, but measured on a global scale that person is likely to be considered relatively poor.

• The Rise of Garveyism

  • Convinced that blacks should have a permanent homeland in Africa, Garvey sought to develop Liberia.
  • The Liberia program, launched in 1920, was intended to build colleges, universities, industrial plants, and railroads as part of an industrial base from which to operate.
  • However, it was abandoned in the mid-1920s after much opposition from European powers with interests in Liberia.

• Poverty

  • Liberia has a substantially lower GNI PPP than the United States, meaning that the nation's wealth is much lower.
  • Consequently, someone with an average income in Liberia has a substantially lower standard of living and much less access to resources than someone with an average income in the U.S.
  • By a local measure of relative poverty, the wealthiest person in a town in Liberia is well-off, but measured on a global scale that person is likely to be relatively poor.

• Leadership

  • In the late 19th century, the European imperial powers occupied and colonized most of the continent, leaving Ethiopia and Liberia as the only two fully independent states.
  • (Liberia, in fact, is the only country in Africa rooted in U.S. colonization; beginning in 1820, the region was colonized by African Americans from the United States, most of whom were freed slaves).

• Marcus Garvey

  • Convinced that black people should have a permanent homeland in Africa, Garvey sought to develop Liberia.
  • The Liberia program, launched in 1920, was intended to establish colleges, universities, industrial plants, and railroads; however, it was abandoned in the mid-1920s after strong opposition from European powers with interests in the region.

• Colonialism and Neocolonialism

  • The United States is an example of a core country, with immense capital and relatively high wage labor; Mexico is a semiperipheral country, where the economy has grown rapidly and there is significant technology manufacturing, but where most capital still comes from foreign nations; Liberia is an example of a peripheral country, where virtually all investment is foreign and many wage laborers earn less than $1/day.

• Slavery and Liberty

  • In 1821 the ACS established the colony of Liberia, and assisted thousands of former African-American slaves and free blacks to emigrate there from the United States.

• The Politics of Slavery

  • The AASS rejected colonization—the proposal to send free blacks back to the new colony of Liberia in Africa—as a racist scheme and opposed the use of violence to end slavery.

• Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

  • Supporters of this strategy often also advocated for colonization for freed slaves, a strategy that would see emancipated people sent to colonies established in Africa, such as Liberia.