Shoulda picked our own cotton.
Or made Liberia mandatory.
I recall reading that Longstreet actually said that. Shoulda picked our own damn cotton. Now here we are. Whites being lynched on a daily basis.
Shoulda picked our own cotton.
atually, we should have screwed growing cotton, and gone right into polyesters...
importing Stone Age savages to form the basis of an economy-what could go wrong...?
“Shoulda picked our own cotton.”
Our fifth president gave it a shot.
In 1824, the city was renamed to Monrovia after James Monroe, then President of the United States, who was a prominent supporter of the colony in sending freed Black slaves and ex-caribbean slaves from the United States of America and Caribbean islands to Liberia and who saw it as preferable to emancipation in America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monrovia