The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly ...

Starting in 1820, thousands of Black emigrants were shipped to what would become Liberia. The society's segregationist ideology has a lasting impact on America and Liberia. On December 21, 1816, a ...

Whether or not they knew it, the crowds who cheered President Donald Trump at a July 17 rally in North Carolina by chanting “send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar were part of a long American ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...

The CUYAHOGA COUNTY COLONIZATION SOCIETY formed at the Academy on 8 Jan. 1827. The society favored ending slavery by colonization: the U.S. government would buy slaves from their masters and transport ...

With its palm trees and mangrove swamps, Liberia’s Maryland County is a world away from Fells Point. Yet it’s there, on the West Coast of Africa, where more than 1,000 free and formerly enslaved ...

In Tuesday’s Washington Post, an editorial urging President Bush to send peacekeepers to civil war-wracked Liberia noted that the country was “founded by freed U.S. slaves.” Is that true? Not quite.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

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 ...