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American Colonization Society

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...
Yahoo

In the 1800s, the American Colonization Society relocated thousands of freed Black Americans to West Africa. It led to the creation of Liberia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Colonization Society's mission was to relocate freed Black Americans to Africa. Starting in 1820, thousands of Black ...
Time

200 Years Before the 'Send Her Back' Chants, This U.S.-Backed Effort Tried to Send Free Black Americans 'Back'

"Meeting of the American Colonization Society at Washington." Undated illustration. Staff Writer Whether or not they knew it, the crowds who cheered President Donald Trump at a July 17 rally in North ...
The Baltimore Sun

‘The real story of Liberia is a story of survival’: Remembering the role of Black and white Marylanders in the creation of Africa’s first republic

With its palm trees and mangrove swamps, Liberia’s Maryland County is a world away from Fells Point. Yet it’s there, on the West Coast of Africa, where more than 1,000 free and formerly enslaved ...
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Membership certificate to the American Colonization Society

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Against wind and tide : the African American struggle against the colonization movement / Ousmane K. Power-Greene

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...