Back-to-Africa movement
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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 enslaved people to most regions of the African contin
Departure of African Americans to Liberia, 1896
The Province of Freedom from Voyages to the River Sierra Leone by John Matthews, 1788
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906
Paul Cuffe
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Paul Cuffe, also known as Paul Cuffee was a Black American and Wampanoag businessman, whaler and abolitionist. Born free into a free people of color family on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, Cuffe be
Captain Paul Cuffee engraving, 1812, from a silhouette by Dr. John Pole of Bristol, England
