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The Colonization Movement
Alarmed by the growing free black population, a number of Virginians -- including James Monroe and John Randolph of Roanoke -- joined antislavery northerners in establishing the American Colonization Society. The society promoted the "repatriation" of former slaves to Africa and established the country of Liberia. About 15,000 blacks emigrated and patterned their society after the American South. |