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 ...

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.

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 inclement, and the approaches to the ...

The gulf was becoming a vital part of the American economy, a freeway for exporting slavery’s cotton and sugar crops.

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on early modern history and economic history continue with a video on the Russian Colonization of the Americas, as we see how Russia tried ...

The document contained no reference to colonization but instead envisioned emancipated slaves taking their places as productive members of American society.

Elliott Cresson, American, 1797 - 1854 Description A membership certificate to the American Colonization Society for Sarah Emlen Cresson signed by James Madison as the president of the society on ...

The painting of Mary Ann Tritt Cassell by a D.C. artist is likely the first known portrait commissioned by an American born into slavery.

A Montgomery County committee caused an outcry after labelling “Colonization and the Wampanoag story,” a children’s Native American history book, as fiction.

Taylor gave an example of mining the records of the American Colonization Society that concluded that African Americans should be sent back to Africa.

The American Colonization Society was founded in 1816 by a group of white clergymen and political leaders who saw repatriation to Africa as a possible future for free Black Americans.

To be more specific: In the formation of the Colonization Society, history shows us that the multiplicity of motives incident to its establishment prevailed in no small degree.