In this essay I will discuss James Forton, Martin Delany, and Maria Stewart. With these individual’s the debate was between whether blacks should go back and colonize Africa with them having a new found freedom. The group involved in this matter were the ACS “American Colonization Society” formed in 1816 which was used to spread Christianity throughout Africa. Emigration and migration stems back to a man named Paul Cuffe. Cuffe was a free African American businessman who had a shipbuilding firm. His-self believing in blacks going back to colonize Africa came from a trip he took to Sierra Leone. Thinking that blacks going to Africa to work/build factories and help different tribes with learning the things they learned in America would