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The roots of the Colonization movement date back to various plans
first proposed in the eighteenth century. From the start, colonization of
free blacks in Africa was an issue on which both whites and blacks were divided.
Some blacks supported emigration because they thought that black Americans
would never receive justice in the United States. Others believed African-Americans
should remain in the United States to fight against slavery and for full legal rights
as American citizens. Some whites saw colonization as a way of ridding the nation of blacks
others believed black Americans would be happier in Africa, where they could live free
of racial discrimination. Still others believed black American colonists could play a central role
in Christianizing and civilizing Africa.
The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa
as an alternative to emancipation in the United States the society established on the west coast of Africa
a colony that became the independent nation of Liberia the society had sent more than 13,000 emigrants.
Beginning in the 1830s, the society was harshly attacked by abolitionists, who tried to discredit colonization
as a slaveholder's scheme.

Beginnings of the American Colonization Society

Paul Cuffee (1759-1817), a successful Quaker ship owner of African- American and Native American
ancestry, advocated settling freed American slaves in Africa. He gained support from the British government,
free black leaders in the United States, and members of Congress for a plan to take emigrants to
the British colony of Sierra Leone. Cuffee intended to make one voyage per year, taking settlers
and bringing back valuable cargoes at his own expense, Captain Cuffee took thirty-eight American blacks
to Freetown, Sierra Leone, but his death in 1817 ended further ventures. However, Cuffee had reached
a large audience with his pro-colonization arguments and laid the groundwork for later organizations
such as the (ACS) American Colonization Society


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