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Gregg Mitman on Firestone's Rubber Empire in Liberia
Publisher |
Jessica Levy
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Feb 04, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:48:53

This month's episode focuses on a popular commodity, namely rubber. Despite consuming a large share of the world's rubber supply, the United States has long relied on the global market to meet American demand for rubber. During the early twentieth-century, this dependence on foreign rubber led the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company to the West African nation of Liberia, where the company built one of the largest rubber plantations in the world. What follows is a tale of land expropriation, medical racism, and corporate power that stretches from the 1920s to the 2020s.

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