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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, ...
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Lafayette's Findley and Webster moved to Liberia as part of Indiana Colonization Society

In the mid-19 th century, Liberia, a colony of the American Colonization Society on Africa’s western bulge, promised an African government with equal opportunities. In 1851, a Lafayette Daily Courier ...
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Membership certificate to the American Colonization Society

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Champlain native set up 'Little America' on Africa's west coast

PLATTSBURGH — The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly enslaved Blacks and free Blacks on the African continent.
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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 ...