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 ...

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 ...

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 American Colonization Society’s first voyage to West Africa took place in 1820, carrying about 90 immigrants who landed on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone. Many died from disease.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nikki M. Taylor, a history professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., has written three books on African American history in Cincinnati, including “Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s ...

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