Quakers supported the settlement of freed slaves in Africa because they believed it would result in a better life for freemen.
Quakers supported the settlement of freed slaves in Africa because they believed it would result in a better life for freemen.
what was the return to Africa like for the freed slaves this is not an answer.
to make a homeland for freed slaves in Africa
quakers and freed blacks
The plan to return freed slaves to Africa was called Back-to-Africa movement.
Slaveholders supported the settlement of freed slaves in Africa because they feared social and economic disruptions caused by emancipation in the United States. They believed that by resettling freed slaves in Africa, they could maintain control and avoid potential conflicts with newly freed individuals. Additionally, some slaveholders saw it as a way to fulfill their moral responsibility to provide assistance to freed slaves.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was a former slave who founded settlements for newly freed slaves in Kansas. Later he was prominent in the Back-To-Africa movement.
The first settlement in Africa for freed slaves was Freetown in Sierra Leone. It was established in 1787 as a resettlement for freed slaves from Britain and the Americas.
Liberia...
because of democracy
Monrovia, Liberia.
They were freed
Conductors (on the underground railroad) They were: freed slaves Quakers Abolitionists Anti-slavery activists