[Jim Noble]

“after the Civil War they should have sent every freed slave that wanted to go back to Africa back”

There were great-great-great grandchildren of slaves brought to British North America in the 1600s living in 1865, with no meaningful connection to any African kingdom or population group.

Now it’s 170 years after that.

If you want to have a conversation about separation of ADOS, it’s going to happen inside the boundaries of the United States or it isn’t going to happen at all.

Their homes are not in Africa. Most of them have American lineage going back longer than most European-descended people living in America have.

I mean, the conversation started by NOI in the 1950s is going to resurface, by force of circumstance if for no other reason. Elijah Muhammad, if I recall correctly, asked for five states.

Which ones are you willing to give up?

[NorthMountain]

Elijah Muhammad, if I recall correctly, asked for five states. Which ones are you willing to give up?

None of them. The people in question must learn to behave like human beings. No other option is compatible with the continued existence of The Republic.

[packrat35]

The ones that did go back to form Liberia were never truly accepted as African and were violently overthrown in the 80’s with large numbers of them being massacred.

[Verginius Rufus]

Before the Civil War, there were cases where a slave was offered freedom if he would emigrate to Liberia but turned it down--the prospect of going there was scary. Colonization tended to be attended by high mortality rates. The actual colonists from the US who went to Liberia were not very numerous--and they were a small minority compared to the Africans already there.

During the Civil War, Lincoln tried to establish a colony of American blacks in Haiti but many of them died and the project was abandoned.