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

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 ...
Niagara Gazette

New York native set up 'Little America' on Africa's west coast

The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly ...
PBS

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, ...
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 ...
JSTOR Daily

The Origins and Context of the First Coinage for Liberia

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

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 ...