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    3. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia [Audiobook]

    Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia [Audiobook]

    Posted By: joygourda
    Date: 10 Jun 2022 16:23:53
    Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia [Audiobook]

    Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia [Audiobook]
    English | ASIN: B0B1S8TL9W | 2022 | 11 hours and 47 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 324 MB
    Author: Gregg Mitman
    Narrator: Amir Abdullah

    In the early 1920s, Americans owned eighty percent of the world's automobiles and consumed seventy-five percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the US flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation's explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America's rubber empire.

    Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war.
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