This one’s got it all: dysentery, white savior complexes, land “purchases” no one understood, and Francis Scott Key playing dictator from D.C. Welcome to Liberia, brought to you by James Monroe and the “philanthropists” ofthe American Colonization Society.

In this bonus episode of Buck Wild, Kyle and Eric rip the powdered wig off the American Colonization Society’s misguided plan to ship freed slaves off to West Africa like that somehow solved racism. (Spoiler: it didn’t.)

We’re talking:

• Sherbro Island: dysentery’s favorite vacation spot

• Monrovia: named for Monroe, because of course it was

• A parade of pro-slavery politicians pretending this wascharity

• And the chef’s kiss cherry on top—Liberia’s first fewdecades being micromanaged by rich white men who’d never set foot there.

It’s tragic, it’s infuriating, and yeah—it’s got jokes.Because if we don’t laugh at history’s worst ideas, we might just scream.

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