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 continent. The small number of formerly enslaved who settled—some under duress—initially faced brutal conditions, due to diseases to which they no longer had biological resistance.
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 continent. The small number of formerly enslaved who settled—some under duress—initially faced brutal conditions, due to diseases to which they no longer had biological resistance.
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