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to make a homeland for freed slaves in Africa
To free the slaves to Africa as opposed to the US. The country of Liberia was formed in 1822 by a colonization society in the United States as a homeland for freed slaves. It was the first independent African republic. Monrovia, the country's capital city, was named after U.S. President James Monroe, who arranged for its founding. The name Liberia comes from the Latin phrase which means free land.
Slaves.
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America sent freed slaves for the purpose of colonization to Liberia.
few slaves were actually freed for the purpose of colonization.
to return slaves to Africa
Liberia. Get it? Like liberty, liberation, ect.
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it is true.
The American Colonization Society was formed for the purpose of sending blacks back to the continent of Africa, where it was believed, the former slaves would have more personal freedom. It helped to found the nation of Liberia in 1821as a haven for freed African-Americans.
- money - slaves - goods - exploration - power - spread of Christianity - revolution
The Worst country in the world
Why of course to make a living off the backs of the slaves. They brought slaves to America to work their fields and land pretty much they built this country off the backs of the slaves.
in the south Slavery in the United States had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, although African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s. H...
Liberia was founded to get free slaves back to Africa from america.