" Helene Cooper writes a very interesting book about a memoir/history of the blacks taken back to Africa in the early part of the nineteenth century. A very detailed book. Although out of a sort of fear it took the author a very long time to return to Liberia after leaving in 1979, she never actually touches on in as much detail as to what happened to the country. Well there may be no straight answer as to what happened and what continually happens to countries like Libera, Haiti, Rwanda etc. with their governments and societies. There was in Liberia a large obvious unequality amoung the people that had gone on for hundreds of years. But even that does not justify the murders, maiming and disapperances of countless people in Liberia or anywhere of a similar background. When I read about the people taken to Liberia at the early part of the 19th century I have always been left wondering what happened to them, like a chapter unfinished, now I know. It is a moving and at times funny as well as sad life story. But then I don't believe there are many lives that are not moving, funny and sad at the same time. "
— Yasmin, 1/7/2014