American Colonization Society
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american-colonization-society-209-557861
title:
American Colonization Society
text:
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn people of color and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa. It was modeled on an earlier British Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor's colonization in Africa, which had sought to resettle London's "black poor". Until the organization's dissolution in
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encyclopedia
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19th-century group in the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society
date created:
2003-07-03T23:14:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T13:53:10Z
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