Liberia, on the west coast of Africa,was settled by freed slaves.
Slaves were brought to the New World when the Triangle Trade came around. Africa sent slaves to America and England in return for the imports that Africa got from them.
Move
Europe got slaves from Africa by the triangular trade. Europe traded with Africa, Europe gave Africa guns, rum, gunpowder, and tools. Africa traded back with slaves
Most slaves are from West Africa.
The plan to return freed slaves to Africa was called Back-to-Africa movement.
Liberia...
Am. colonization society
to make a homeland for freed slaves in Africa
Liberia
After the abolition of slavery, many newly freed slaves wanted to return to Africa. As they had no way of knowing how to get back to exactly from whence they came, the nation of Liberia was established.
Liberia was settled by freed American slaves in the early 19th century. It was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society as a place for freed African-Americans to return to Africa.
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.
to return slaves to Africa
After the total abolition of slavery, a movement started to allow the return to Africa of recently freed slaves. To facilitate this, the country of Liberia was founded.
because of democracy
The two abolitionists, Douglas and Stowe had a disagreement about the colonization of freed slaves. Stowe believed that a return to Africa offered former slaves the best way for them to reach their full potential, and there, not be impeded by white people. Douglas believed that freed slaves were now in the United States and that this was their home. Africa was too far removed in the middle of the 19th Century, to be considered as a haven for freed slaves.