DAR ES SALAAM — [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- There's a line about Liberia that gets repeated so often it has hardened into fact: alone among African nations, it was never colonized. Fred van der Kraaij doesn't buy it, and he's spent nearly 240 pages -- a third of them notes, bibliography, and index -- building the case against it. Liberia was colonized, he writes plainly in his introduction, just not by a European flag. It was colonized by the United States, working through a private society whose board was thick with slaveholders, using free Black
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