The American Colonization Society responded to the belief that
A) blacks and whites could not live together in a racially integrated America.
B) African Americans were better off as slaves than as free blacks in America.
C) emancipation of slaves could best be handled by the state governments.
D) most African Americans, if freed, preferred to go back to Africa.
A
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