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Africans were able to work into freedom. Slavery was pretty much a penalty for crime. Also prisoners captured in battle became slaves. I know of at least one instance where an african slave became a king, King Jaja of Opobo. That could not happen in America. Not everbody black went to Liberia and Liberians really don't consider America the homeland. There were Africans already living in Liberia when the former slaves went back. because only around 18,000 went back.1. Although blacks did enslave onei another the process was accelerated and encouraged by the Europeans who sought cheap labor to work the plantations in the New world. Most all of the black Americans are descended from a small area in West Africa. After the Civil War, the US bought land from that same area and allowed any blacks that wanted to go back to Africa to do so. Those who went back established the country of Liberia. Interestingly enough, to this day Liberians consider the U.S. as the motherland. Their flag is modeled after the US flag, and although their government is very corrupt, it is modeled after our constitution and government.