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American colonization society (134)

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is now Liberia. Society concerned with re-patriating African-Americans to Africa....

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Jewish colonization association (12)

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Maryland State Colonization Society (5)

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Founded in 1817 as an auxiliary of the Washington-based American Colonization Society, the Maryland State Colonization Society's primary functions were to gather funds for the parent society and to recruit colonists for the American Society's settlement, Liberia, founded on the West African coast in 1822. Ten years later, the Maryland Society decided to chart a course independent of the American Society by founding a separate colony for Maryland's free blacks, called "Maryland in Liberia." Co...

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Colonization Society of Virginia (5)

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Established November 4, 1823, as an auxiliary to the American Colonization Society, to provide and organize resources for the free black population of Virginia who desired to emigrate. In December 1828 the members of the auxiliary resolved to become the Colonization Society of Virginia, separate from the parent society, for the purpose of providing funds for those who voluntarily chose to emigrate to Liberia.

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New-York Colonization Society (4)

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Oregon & Western Colonization Company (4)

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Mexican Colonization and Agricultural Company (5)

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Home Colonization Society (2)

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Kentucky Colonization Society (2)

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Canada Colonization Association. (2)

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