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Not the US Government. An American foundation, named the American Colonization Society, helped found the nation of Liberia for former slaves, though.

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No, but a society established by Americans for the resettlement of freedmen did own a territory in Africa between 1822 and 1847. The territory is now known as Liberia.

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