<Li> Economic arguments were also advanced, most notably by those who said that the presence of free blacks threatened the jobs of working - class whites in the North . </Li> <P> Southerners had their special reservations about free blacks, fearing that those living in slave areas caused unrest among slaves and encouraged runaways and slave revolts . They also had racial reservations about the ability of free blacks to conform . The proposed solution was to have free blacks deported from the United States to colonize parts of Africa . </P> <P> Paul Cuffee (1759--1817) was a mixed - race, successful Quaker ship owner, and activist descended from Ashanti and Wampanoag parents . He advocated settling freed American slaves in Africa and gained support from the British government, free black leaders in the United States, and members of Congress to take emigrants to the British colony of Sierra Leone . Cuffee was an early advocate of settling freed blacks in Africa and he gained support from black leaders and members of the U.S. Congress for an emigration plan . In 1815 he financed a trip and the following year, in 1816, Cuffee took 38 American blacks to Freetown, Sierra Leone; other voyages were precluded by his death in 1817 . By reaching a large audience with his pro-colonization arguments and practical example, Cuffee laid the groundwork for the American Colonization Society . </P> <P> The colonization effort resulted from a mixture of motives . Free - born blacks, freedmen, and their descendants, encountered widespread discrimination in the US of the early 19th century . Whites generally perceived them as a burden on society and a threat to white workers because they undercut wages . Some abolitionists believed that blacks could not achieve equality in the United States because of discrimination and would be better off in Africa where they could organize their own society . Many slaveholders worried that the presence of free blacks was a threat to the slave societies of the South, especially after some were involved directly in slave rebellions . The Society appeared to support contradictory goals: free blacks should be removed because they could not benefit America; on the other hand, free blacks would prosper and thrive under their own leadership in another land . </P>

Which of the following events resulted from the actions of the american colonization society