A succesful Back to Africa movement?

In DoD, Liberia is a) in a different place (Angola / Namibia) and has more former slaves going there.

That's the question: How much would it cost to bring a former slave back to Africa, and how much would that be in 2013 money?
 
It didn't in Liberia. Even today most of the powerful people in Liberia come from those who descended from American slaves sent there. Of course there was far more intermarriage between the colonists and the natives than in Rhodesia or South Africa. That is far more likely. Partial assimilation with those who have the most "colonial" blood prevailing.

I guess I did overstate my case-greater interbreeding does go a long way to preserving colonial elites (paradoxically enough). Still, I think having a back to Africa movement which is 'successful' in that it creates a nation which is stable and peaceful is a very difficult proposition.

One possibility is *Liberia losing control of its 'hinterland' to a European colonialist power. A smaller, more densely populated coastal country would allow greater interbreeding between the colonizers and colonized, and not having a wide stretch of land (and people) to treat like a frontier to be exploited would create less future incentives for ethnic violence.
 

katchen

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Near as I can tell, Liberia never had much control over much hinterland. Which is how it got restricted and hemmed in by French West Africa.
Liberia had it's chance to carve out a large niche in Africa. And through Liberia, so did the United States. And Goodyear and Firestone and B.F. Goodrich Tires.
 
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