February 30th 2008
*Why did freed Americans go to Liberia?*
Would you do something to help people that you see are in great need? Or will you just sit back and watch them suffer with no help what so ever from their own government? I would most definitely help out. That is what free Americans did for the Liberians. The article from New York Voices on "The Freed Liberians in Staten Island" has taught me that freed Americans went to Liberia after seeing the conditions that the Liberians that escaped the bloody civil war at their homeland was in. Many Liberians who escaped the war came to United States and got help from international relief programs and taken in as refugees. Thousands of them that survived wound up in the Park Hill section of Staten Island. Those that went and helped the Liberians also helped with the "Americanization" of the refugees. Many people helped to teach them how to read because it was imperative for them to get a job so that they could support their families both in the States, and back in their own country.
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