The American Colonization Society's mission was to relocate freed Black Americans to Africa. Starting in 1820, thousands of Black emigrants were shipped to what would become Liberia. The society's ...

Starting in 1820, thousands of Black emigrants were shipped to what would become Liberia. The society's segregationist ideology has a lasting impact on America and Liberia. On December 21, 1816, a ...

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, ...

"With minutes of the annual meeting and of the Board of Directors." Reports for 1818-38 and 1843 bear the earlier name of the society: American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the ...

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 ...

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.

From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, Trump can easily find precedents for his policy. None of them ended well. Among Donald Trump’s ...

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