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BACK-TO-AFRICA MOVEMENT ON THIS DAY

Back-to-Africa movement - Wikipedia

The first organized immigration of freeborn Black Americans to
Africa from the United States departed
New York harbor on a
journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa.

The immigration was largely the work of the American Colonization Society, a U.S. organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to
return formerly enslaved African people to Africa.

However, the expedition was also partially funded by the U.S.
Congress, which in 1819 had appropriated $100,000 to be used
in returning displaced Africans, illegally brought to the United
States after the abolishment of the slave trade in 1808, to Africa.

African American adults and children gathered in large room with beds and tables
Depiction of African American refugees from Arkansas
awaiting transportation to Liberia at the Mount Olivet
Baptist Chapel in New York City.

Back-to-Africa Movement - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

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