The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambival

The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates

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