The Colonization of American society did not start because of love for the African American people; it started because of fear on both sides. There is a saying in Africa “if you do not bury me because of love, you will bury me because of the smell” and it was beginning to smell. While slave owners were afraid of the “free blacks” starting a revolution, there were other people that wanted to see blacks have more opportunities. African Americans were afraid of what would happen to them, wondering if they would have the opportunity to get an education, be seen as citizens or be free to live the life they wanted to. What they wanted most was to be seen as equals. Around 1787, the presence of free blacks was seen as a threat to the nation of America. Efforts were made by both “whites” and “blacks” to find an alternative home for free blacks. Some believed that blacks could never be “fully integrated into American society”, and some in America fell that blacks could only be seen as equal “human beings” if they moved out of America. This idea had been in the mines of people since “1714 [to remove blacks] to territory beyond the limits of the United Stated or to an unsettled area of public land”. (The Formation of The America Colonization Society p 209) Thomas Jefferson who advocated for the colonization of blacks from the year 1773, replied in 1811, according to Henry Noble to Ann Mifflin’s proposition to make a settlement of colored people on the west coast of Africa. Thomas Jefferson said “the most desirable measure which could be adopted for gradually drawing off this part of our population, most advantageously for themselves as well as for us.” In Jefferson correspondence (The Formation of The America Colonization Society p564) he also “proposed the establishment of Sierra Leone” for colonization of the blacks, because “England has already colonized a number of Negroes and if this could not be