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… One great mistake of the people of Liberia has been neglect of our native population. I do not say that this has been universally the case; and I am glad to aver that it has been unaccompanied with a malignant will. The fault has been more relative than absolute. We have far fallen short of our duty, than is either justifiable or excusable. We have been guilty of a neglect, which has carried with it harm to the aborigines; and, at the same time, visited grievous wrong upon ourselves.
Alexander Crummell, Annual Address before the Common Council and Citizens of Monrovia, 1870. From Alexander Crummell, Africa and America (1891) pp. 169–98
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Wilson, H.S. (1969). Our National Mistakes and the Remedy for them. In: Origins of West African Nationalism. History in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15352-7_11
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