 Struggling to revive the agricultural economy to produce commodity crops, Boyer passed the Code Rural, which denied peasant laborers the right to leave the land, enter the towns, or start farms or shops of their own, causing much resentment as most peasants wished to have their own farms rather than work on plantations.The American Colonization Society (ACS) encouraged free blacks in the United States to emigrate to Haiti.Starting in September 1824, more than 6,000 African Americans migrated to Haiti, with transportation paid by the ACS.