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Antique Maps of Liberia - CD: Antique Maps of Liberia CD |
| Product Description : You don't have to be either a cartographer or historian to feel the historic impact of these maps. The platform on which the American Colonization Society based and enacted its efforts is, by contemporary standards, highly questionable. The fact that Liberia finally emerged as a country has nothing to do with the original intentions behind its colonization. The horrendous conditions that prevail there even do today. The fact that Liberia exists at all stands as mute testimony to the fact that African Americans have been underestimated as a matter of historical course. The American writer, philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once said: "It is no man's obligation as a matter of course to engage in the eradication of even the most enormous wrong. But if he decides not to pay it his attention, he should not lend it his support." Here is a chance to consider the history of this war-torn land up close, and to decide what our standpoint should be. I, personally, think of Liberia as a failed experiment. The country has a highly unstable economy that is not capable of sustaining its inhabitants. People are leaving it in large numbers, driven by the insecurity inherent in every passing day. The capital city, Monrovia - the once robust capital city of Africa's oldest independent nation - has no electricity, no pipe-borne water and no working sewer system. In the light of this, America's earliest, self-centered efforts to colonize it are of special significance. Something that has been begun with the wrong motives must eventually fall. This map collection of Liberia's earliest settlements on CD can and does serve as food for intense thought, and I strongly recommend its study. |
