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From January 1820, the ACS sent ships from New York to West Africa.

The first had 88 free black emigrants and three white ACS agents on board, who intended to seek an appropriate area to ground a settlement.

After several attempts and hardships, ACS representatives in December 1821 succeeded, perhaps with some threat of force ( see American Colonization Society ), to buy Cape Mesurado, a 36-mile long strip of land near current day Monrovia, from the indigenous ruler King Peter.