<P> The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, commonly known as the American Colonization Society (ACS), was a group established in 1816 by Robert Finley of New Jersey which supported the migration of free African Americans to the continent of Africa . It helped to found a colony on the Pepper Coast of West Africa (which became independent Liberia in 1848) in 1821--22 as a place for free - born or manumitted American blacks . The ACS met with immediate and continuing objections from African Americans like James Forten and David Walker, who wished to remain in the land of their birth, saw colonization as a racist strategy for protecting slavery and purging the U.S. of its black citizens, and preferred to fight for equal rights at home . </P> <P> The ACS was founded by groups otherwise opposed to each other on the issue of slavery, being a coalition made up mostly of evangelicals and Quakers who supported abolition of slavery and believed blacks would face better chances for freedom in Africa than in the United States, and some slaveholders (in the Maryland branch and elsewhere) who saw repatriation as a way to remove free blacks from slave societies and avoid slave rebellions . The Society attracted numerous prominent supporters from the Virginia Piedmont region . The two opposed groups found common ground in support of so - called "repatriation". </P>

What nation was founded as a result of the acs