With the ending of slavery after the American Civil War, why didn't African Americans form their own state, or country? With the horrors of slavery and the following race problems which would follow did anyone campaign for a black state where the problems of race relations would be 'solved'?
The territory of North America was pretty well divided up by 1865, so there's not a lot of room to build your own new country.
Freed slaves did, however, form a lot of independent small towns in an effort to build their own new lives. Some links that talk about these are http://www.blacktownsproject.org/ http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/a/al009.html http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-nicodemus.html