It also argued that whites would only take advantage of the Afro-American, and that the separation of the two races was the only solution.

The participants at the Bethel meeting contended that this propaganda tended to justify racial discrimination.
The claim was also made that the removal of freedmen from America would only serve to make the slave system more secure, and they pledged themselves never to abandon their slave brothers.

Besides, while they were African by heritage, they had been born in America, and it was now their home.

Most of the fifteen thousand who did return to Africa were slaves who had been freed for this purpose, and the project was acknowledged to be a failure.

The Society's own propaganda contributed to the alienation of many freedmen.