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Back-to-Africa movement facts for kids

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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.

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  • (1896) Departure of colored emigrants for Liberia - The Illustrated American, March 21, 1896

    African Americans depart for Liberia, 1896

  • Province of Freedom

    The Province of Freedom from Voyages to the River Sierra Leone by John Matthews, 1788

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