Back-to-Africa movement
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The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement, originated in the United States in the nineteenth century, and encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement.
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Notable repatriated people
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts - first President of Liberia and founding father
- Thomas Peters (black leader) - African American Black Loyalist leader and founder of Freetown, Sierra Leone
- William Coleman - President of Liberia
- Stephen Allen Benson - President of Liberia
- David George - African American Baptist preacher
- Boston King - African American Methodist missionary
- Henry Washington - African-born slave to first U.S. President George Washington
- Daniel Coker - African American missionary to Sierra Leone
- Edward Jones (missionary) - American missionary to Sierra Leone
- Edward J. Roye - President of Liberia, and first president from the True Whig Party
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