So Robert Finley started an organization called the " American Colonization Society."

因此，罗伯特·芬利成立了一个名为“美国殖民协会” 的组织。

He was a member of something called the " American Colonization Society."

他是一个叫做“美国殖民协会” 的组织的成员。

It was not a new idea. Forty years earlier, a group of leading Americans had formed an organization for that purpose. They called it the American Colonization Society.

这并非是一个新主意。四十年前，一群美国要人曾为此成立过一个组织，称之为美国殖民协会。

In the case of the American Colonization Society, their idea was to have a colony for African-American slaves.

就美国殖民协会而言，他们的想法是为非裔美国奴隶建立一个殖民地。

The American Colonization Society actually had two purposes – one was to serve as a sponsor in order to buy the freedom of slaves.

美国殖民协会其实有两个目的——一个是充当赞助商，收买奴隶的自由。

Just as they had planned, the American Colonization Society put a group of freed slaves on a ship and sent them to Liberia the very next year, in 1822.

正如他们计划的那样，美国殖民协会将一群获得自由的奴隶送上了一艘船， 并于次年，也就是 1822 年将他们送到了利比里亚。

Nevertheless, the American Colonization Society had this idea that this was the best solution – to take the freed slaves and return them to the continent from which they had come.

尽管如此，美国殖民协会认为这是最好的解决方案——带走获释的奴隶并将他们送回他们来自的大陆。

While the American Colonization Society, according to some, had good intentions in sending the freed slaves back to Africa, there were a lot of people who didn't support the organization's goals.

虽然美国殖民协会， 据一些人说，将获释的奴隶送回非洲是出于善意， 但也有很多人不支持该组织的目标。

In America, the movement began as the  American Colonization Society in 1816. At this time, antislavery wasn't synonymous with  equal rights for Blacks and instead focused on sending the formerly enslaved people back to  Africa.

在美国，该运动始于 1816 年的美国殖民协会。此时，反奴隶制并不是黑人平等权利的代名词，而是专注于将以前被奴役的人送回非洲。