The back-to-Africa movement was a political movement in the 19th and 20th centuries advocating for a return of the descendants of African American slaves to the African continent.

When they arrived on Feb. 3, 1816, Cuffee’s passengers became the first African Americans who willingly returned to Africa through an African-American initiative.

2023年8月14日 · The Back-to-Africa Movement mobilized thousands of African-American Arkansans who wished to leave the state for the Republic of Liberia in the late 1800s. Approximately 650 emigrants left from Arkansas, more than from any other American state, in the 1880s and 1890s, the last phase of organized group migration of black Americans to Liberia.

2016年3月5日 · African repatriation for ex-slaves and free blacks from North America and other Western societies began during the eighteenth century. For example, Job Ben Solomon of Senegal was captured, sold to a slave trader, and shipped to Maryland.

2019年4月1日 · The American Colonization Society was distinct from Black-led “back to Africa” movements that argued Black Americans could only escape slavery and discrimination by establishing their own ...

The Back to Africa Movement was a social and political movement that aimed to encourage people of African descent, particularly those in the United States, to return to Africa.

The Back-to-Africa movement is a movement for African Americans and the black diaspora to move back to Africa. African repatriation for ex African slaves and free black people from North America and other Western societies began during the eighteenth century. [1] They founded the country of Liberia.

In the minds of most whites during the early part of the 19th century, free African Americans would either compete for jobs with newly arriving immigrants in the cities of the North and or instill insurrection with the slaves on the plantations of the South.

Movement begun by Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey in the early twentieth century to create an African homeland for the American blacks. As early as the second decade of the 1700s, there was a movement to remove African Americans from America and ship them to Africa.

By the 1840s, many African Americans rejected emigration as racist, counterproductive, and dangerous. However, Turner dreamt of an independent Black nation on the African continent. In spite of waning public support for African emigration, Turner never relinquished his dreams.