The Important of Liberia to Black American by Gebah Kamara

According to Gebah Kamara Liberia’s contribution to the world and Black American has often been forgotten by the very people that it was established for. According to the author Gebah Sekou Kamara, he details in his book” Slavery and Black American Statehood” that many freed Blacks from the United States and beyond gave their lives for the founding of this beautiful coastal land in West Africa that is today known as the Republic of Liberia. Gebah Kamara is concerns that today’s generation of Black Americans would rather visit or talk about Mexico and foreign lands than mention or admire their connection with Liberia.

As a result, Africa’s first modern democracy created by freed slaves from America has been left buried in long distant memories of past generations of heroes who laid their lives on the line to escape slavery, white prejudice and persecution. According to the Gebah Kamara the research and the time needed by historians to digest the complex history of Liberia has not been appreciated by most of its younger generations on both side of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the author of “Slavery and Black Americans Statehood” Gebah Kamara, Liberia should have the same significance to Black Americans as Israel’s significance to European Jews and Jewish people who came from other parts of the globe to establish historical connections with the state of Israel. Some of the reasons that Liberia’s old democracy is on life support is because it was long ago abandoned by the sons and daughters of the many freed people of color in other parts of the world who sailed away to what they thought were better opportunities. These freed people of color were running from racial prejudice and persecution in search of freedom and to establish a peaceful country of their liking. It was their love of liberty, freedom and equal rights that brought them to this costal land on the west coast of Africa.

Gebah Kamara wants Liberia to reclaim its rightful position in the world as one of the earlier contributors to modern democracy, and the declaration of freedom and liberty for all who set foot on her shores. Black Americans need to reconnect with Liberia, their ancestral homeland, to help keep its dying democracy alive. If Liberian democracy fails, it will not be because of lack of effort on the part of those who risked everything to create this small nation. Instead, it will be because of the old wound of the slavery mentality that is still buried and scarred in the minds of many offspring of Black Americans and indigenous Liberians as well.

According to Gebah Kamara, the creation of this beautiful country came about during the unsettling Antebellum period in the history of America, the protective barriers for social intolerance were on the rise. Violence against Blacks was on the increase in nearly every corner of American society. Northern cities in the United States became epicenters for race riots. Polling places were often the center for many labor disorders, fist fighting, and the white population angered against the presence of Black Americans in cities and towns around the country.

Many whites were easily irritated and annoyed by the presence of freed Black slaves in their communities, some of whom were heavily engaged in exercising their rights and demanding their freedom and right to vote for the first time as free Americans.

Meanwhile, as America’s racial tensions became an issue of southern states, Northern states suffered as well. Abraham Lincoln and many Americans came to support the notion that American race relations could never be resolved. One possible solution advocated among the white elite class at a time when the assimilation of America black population into the American society seemed impossible was the complete separation of white and free black American. He argued and supported the idea that the American Black population should be repatriated back to Africa as a permanent solution to the racial tension in America.

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