AHC: Greater Liberia

With a POD somewhere between 1820 and 1865, create as large a Liberia as possible. Try to use an increased number of American blacks migrating there in order to increase the size and stability of the country.
 
With a POD somewhere between 1820 and 1865, create as large a Liberia as possible. Try to use an increased number of American blacks migrating there in order to increase the size and stability of the country.

The best possible way for this to happen is for many former slaves after the civil war to be shipped to Liberia, the only way for this to happen is for congress to approve of spending a ton of money on a land they don't care about.
 
Move Liberia somewhere else in Africa, somewhere American blacks don't tend to die like flies from diseases they're not habituated to. Northern Namibia and southern Angola are a bit better...

If you _must_ keep it where it is OTL, a delayed/less enthusiastic scramble for Africa gives Liberia a bit more of a chance of expanding into the interior: no Franco-Prussian war (or one that doesn't end in a French loss) takes away quite a bit of the French psychological motivation for going off and adding huge chunks of largely worthless territory to La France.
 
Maybe have Virginia abolish slavery in 1832? There were proposals (following the Nat Turner rebellion) to end the practice while at the same time expelling free blacks, so colonization would have been a very attractive option. IIRC one of the major sources of emigration was Maryland, which had a sizable free black population, so a comparable situation in a much larger state could have prompted even more migration.
 
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