THEY ESTABLISHED THE LARGEST rubber plantation in the world and at one point in time supplied the Allied Forces during World War II. CHILDREN OF TAPPERS NEVER enjoyed the amenities from the parents’ toil and sweat which made Firestone the largest and biggest rubber plantation in the world. Born to rubber tappers, they, too, like their parents, ended up as a rubber tapper, continuing that vicious cycle of dirt poverty. FOR all of these years of being in Liberia, what can Firestone boast of or proudly be a part of? Where does that leave them, also like owners of rubber farms whose sales of rubber were determined by Firestone until President Tolbert ask the Chinese to build a rubber processing belt in Gbarnga which riled the company at that meant it no longer had a monopoly over the price of rubber in Liberia.

Source: Front Page Africa April 04, 2017 01:07 UTC