Following the American Revolution, the number of freed Black Americans had grown from 60,000 in 1790 to 300,000 by 1830. The American Colonization Society emerged as the solution, with the mission ...

The American Colonization Society celebrated its Forty-sixth Anniversary in Rev. Dr. SUNDERLAND'S Church, Washington, ... The history of colonies is an interesting history.

From the Washington Star, Jan. 21. Last night the forty-fifth annual meeting of the American Colonization Society was held in the Hall of Representatives at the Capitol; and the night being very ...

Civil Rights and the Black American A Documentary History , edited by Albert P Blaustein and Robert L. Zangrando, published by Washington Square Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1968 back ...

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 ...

In 1852, the African-American abolitionist Martin Delany wrote, “We look upon the American Colonization Society as one of the most arrant enemies of the colored man, ever seeking to discomfit ...

American Colonization Society, American, 1816 - 1964 Received by Sarah Emlen Cresson, American Signed by James Madison, American, 1751 - 1836 ... Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of ...

Aug. 14, 1862 should have been remembered as a proud day in African-American history. For the first time, a president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, had met with a delegation of free black … ...