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, ...

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

Liberia was the first African colony to become an independent republic. In 1833, the colony’s founding organization, the American Colonization Society, issued a copper coin bearing the names 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 ...

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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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 ...

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