Representatives in the American Colonization Society (ACS) “believed that blacks and whites could not coexist in freedom” (Gates 58) creating the colonization movement. The concept behind this movement was to remove African Americans from America back to Africa. This was thought to be a solution to "gradually end the institution of slavery and thus the problem of race by removing all the slaves and former slaves back to Africa" (Gates 58). This appealed and benefited the white community more than the black. If African Americans were transported back to Africa whites were able to not live in fear that they would lose job opportunities to free blacks and limiting free blacks in the country would discourage slaves to revolt against their masters.
