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The idea of freed african slaves in the US returning to settle in Africa was something that even Abraham Lincoln supported at one point. However it never became a very wide-spread idea and aside from Liberia, there was never any significant migration back.

Can anyone think of a scenario where migration back to africa would have become a more wide-spread phenomena in either the pre or post-civil war period? Perhaps some form of the "great migration" however to africa?

Perhaps something similar to the movement Marcus Garvey among some others before him attempted to organize. The idea that as Africans they would never be truly accepted in a "white man's land" so they have to return home.
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