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    The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded...
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  • the idea of colonization in 1770.[full citation needed] Sierra Leone Company Maryland State Colonization Society African Colonization Society, (1800–1816)...
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    to no colonization at all until the 1800s. European contact and colonization had disastrous effects on the indigenous peoples of the Americas and their...
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    The Maryland State Colonization Society was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose...
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    the American Colonization Society had migrated approximately 15,000 free blacks back to Africa. Notable members of the American Colonization Society included...
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  • Look up colonization or colonisation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colonization is the process of establishing a colony. Colonization or colonisation...
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    emigration of African Americans, both freeborn and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society (ACS). The mortality...
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  • Colony of Liberia (category American colonization movement)
    formed the Confederate States of America at the beginning of the American Civil War. The American Colonization Society did not act alone in creating the...
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    began its colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities...
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    Thomas Church Brownell (category Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America)
    wedding in 1856. The American Colonization Society would add a chapter in Connecticut when the Connecticut Colonization Society was founded in May of...
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    of Liberia, a colony founded and controlled by the private American Colonization Society, was an independent state known as the Republic of Liberia....
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    territorial hemispheres for exclusive conquest and colonization. Portugal colonized parts of South America (Brazil, Colónia do Sacramento, Uruguay, Guanare...
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    founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Louisiana. In the 1820s the focus of anti-slavery was the American Colonization Society, founded on Madisonian...
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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492...
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    France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western...
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    Robert Finley (category American colonization movement)
    3, 1817) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who is known as one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, which established...
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    and the American Colonization Society (ACS), a private organization dedicated to the removal of free people of color from across North America. Some time...
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    Republic of Maryland (category American colonization movement)
    [page needed] The Maryland State Colonization Society was originally a branch of the American Colonization Society, which had founded the colony of Liberia...
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    British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England...
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    was held by the governor of Liberia, who was appointed by the American Colonization Society. The 1847 Constitution transferred the executive powers of the...
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  • Thoughts on African Colonization is a treatise by William Lloyd Garrison criticizing the American Colonization Society and segregation as immoral and improper...
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  • Ralph Randolph Gurley (category American colonization movement)
    1872) was an American clergyman, an advocate of the separation of the races, and a major force for 50 years in the American Colonization Society. It offered...
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    History of slavery in Maryland (category African-American history of Maryland)
    societies, planters and others organized the Maryland State Colonization Society in 1817 as an auxiliary branch of the American Colonization Society,...
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    Liberia (category American colonization movement)
    2023. Cuffee, Paul; Ashmun, Jehudi; Society, American Colonization (July 23, 2010). "Colonization - The African-American Mosaic Exhibition | Exhibitions (Library...
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    Francis Scott Key (category American colonization movement)
    of instigating slaves to rebel. He was also a leader of the American Colonization Society which sent former slaves to Africa. He freed some of his slaves...
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    Kobtzeff, Oleg (1985). La Colonization russe en Amérique du Nord: 18 - 19 ème siècles (Russian Colonization in North- America, 18th-19th Centuries). Paris:...
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    James Forten (category African Americans in the American Revolution)
    Americans in both the city and nationwide. Beginning in 1817, he opposed the colonization movements, particularly that of the American Colonization Society...
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  • ISBN 978-1-4798-2317-8. American Colonization Society (1836). The African Repository. University of Michigan. American colonization society. Kingsley, Zephaniah;...
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  • Kentucky in Africa (category American colonization movement)
    by American free people of color, many of them former slaves. A state affiliate of the American Colonization Society, the Kentucky State Colonization Society...
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    Bushrod Washington (category American colonization movement)
    and president of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the emigration of freed slaves to Africa. The nephew of American Founding Father and...
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