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Presbyterian minister Robert Finley helps found the organization which is devoted to bring free blacks from what would later be Liberia to the United States.

Someone doesn't know much about Black history. They got this part exactly backwards. The plan was to send freed Blacks FROM the US to Liberia, not bring them from Liberia to the US. Robert Finley went on to serve as head of the University of Georgia.

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Presbyterian minister Robert Finley helps found the organization which is devoted to bring free blacks from what would later be Liberia to the United States.

Someone doesn't know much about Black history. They got this part exactly backwards. The plan was to send freed Blacks FROM the US to Liberia, not bring them from Liberia to the US. Robert Finley went on to serve as head of the University of Georgia.

1821: Black Emigration to Liberia
Over the objections of the A.M.E. Church,

The American Colonization Society, which is founded by a white Presbyterian clergyman named Robert Finley establishes the black Republic of Liberia in West Africa

and begins encouraging emigration of blacks to this new African country.