Liberia: Black Africa in Microcosm

by Charles Wilson

One hundred years ago there was founded on the west coast of Africa the small Negro republic that is today one of the least known and most important countries on the face of the earth. Liberia is little known because it is small and remote, because it is poor, and because, until now its story has not been told.Liberia's form of government is an audacious experiment, and her forests now produce about 17 per cent of the world's supply of natural rubber. The account of how there happens to be a Liberia and why Liberia happens to cultivate rubber is told here by a man who has spent his life learning and writing about the tropics and their problems, Charles Morrow Wilson, author of AMBASSADORS IN WHITE.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947