BBC
Bbc World Service: The Story of Africa: Slavery: Resettlement of Freed Slaves
Discusses the resettlement initiatives in the 1800s when freed slaves were sent to live in Sierra Leone and Liberia in Africa, and some of the difficulties they faced there.
Other
Wither Liberia? Civil War Emancipation and Freedmen Resettlement in West Africa
An informative article on efforts during Abraham Lincoln's administration to resettle freedmen to West Africa. (Published: 11/11/2012)
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Free African Americans in the Colonial Era
Read about the ways some slaves gained their freedom and where they often lived once free.