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American Colonization Society
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American Colonization Society
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 3586 Includes: Making of Liberia | Free Black Debate on Colonization | Closing Down Colonization | Bibliography | Bibliography[This entry contains two subentries dealing with the American Colonization Society from its establishment in 1817 through 1895. The first article discusses reactions and controversy related to the society until 1830, while the second article includes discussion of debates within the free black community and attacks on the organization made by African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass.] Founded by a group of former Federalists, evangelicals, and border South cosmopolitans in December 1816, the American Colonization Society (ACS) was, for a brief time, a politically powerful organization that promoted the removal of free blacks to western Africa as an answer to America's race problems. The Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washingtonserved asHenry ...
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Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 621 Includes: BibliographyFounded in December 1816, the American Colonization Society (ACS) was the first national organization to take on the problem of slavery in the United States. The ACS proposed an expatriation scheme to rid the nation of slavery and of free African Americans. The prominent founders Charles Fenton Mercer, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and others secured federal funding and in 1822 founded the colony of Liberia on Africa's west coast as the destination for America's blacks.Even before the founding of the ACS, the colonization of African Americans was an issue that divided both whites and blacks. Some African Americans supported colonization, arguing that free blacks would never be fully included in the white-dominated society of the United States. Others argued just as forcibly that blacks were entitled to full rights as American citizens and should remain to fight on behalf of ...
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Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 621 Includes: BibliographyFounded in December 1816, the American Colonization Society (ACS) was the first national organization to take on the problem of slavery in the United States. The ACS proposed an expatriation scheme to rid the nation of slavery and of free African Americans. The prominent founders Charles Fenton Mercer, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and others secured federal funding and in 1822 founded the colony of Liberia on Africa's west coast as the destination for America's blacks.Even before the founding of the ACS, the colonization of African Americans was an issue that divided both whites and blacks. Some African Americans supported colonization, arguing that free blacks would never be fully included in the white-dominated society of the United States. Others argued just as forcibly that blacks were entitled to full rights as American citizens and should remain to fight on behalf of ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 629 Includes: BibliographyOrganization founded December 28, 1816, in Washington, D.C., that promoted the emigration and colonization of free African Americans along the coast of West Africa. Initially called the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color in the United States, the American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed by a group of Presbyterian ministers. The organization's chief objective was to encourage free blacks (and later manumitted slaves) to emigrate to West Africa.To its audience of free blacks, the organization depicted emigration as an opportunity for African Americans to introduce education and Christianity to their African brethren. In contrast, to Southern whites reading its official newsletter, the African Repository (1825–1909), the ACS portrayed black emigration as a solution to the ...
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