The main goal of the American Colonization Society was to assist and facilitate the voluntary emigration of free African-Americans to Africa. The society was founded in 1816 with the aim of gradually freeing slaves, providing them with education and skills, and ultimately resettling them in Africa. The organization believed in the idea of repatriation, believing that African-Americans would have a better chance of achieving freedom, equality, and economic success in their ancestral homeland. The creation of a colony in Liberia was the society's main project, with the hope that it would become a country where freed slaves could establish a new life.
