According to author Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the majority of white people who envisioned the coming of a day when black people would be deemed legally equal to white people were abolitionists. When enslaved African Americans were emancipated, many of their white fellow Americans were uncomfortable with the idea of these two races living amongst each other, coexisting in the same nation with the equal rights. Many white Americans began advocating for the colonization of African nations with black Americans.
