The American Colonization Society wanted to take American slaves and send them to Africa (a place called Monrovia, named after James Monroe in present-day Liberia)
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The American Colonization Society primarily desired to return both free and enslaved African Americans to Africa. Its members realized that many whites, both in the North and in the South, feared an end to slavery because they did not want to face competition from or live next to former slaves.
