The Free African Society (FAS), founded in 1787, was a benevolent organization that held religious services and provided mutual aid for "free Africans and...

30,000 free African Americans in Colonial America which accounts for about 5% of the total African American population with most of free African Americans...

no more African than white Americans were British. Contrary to claims that their emigration was voluntary, many African Americans, both free and enslaved...

in Newport The Free African Union Society, founded in 1780 in Newport, Rhode Island, was America's first benevolent society for African Americans. Founders...

wealthy New England African-American/Native-American shipper, had transported some members of the group known as the "Free African Society" to Liberia. During...

New York African Free School Collection. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 3 March 2018. African Free School at New-York Historical Society Finding...

negatively impacted African Americans, its mission was to exercise African-American self-determination by establishing a colony of free people of color in...

racialized societies, people of diverse African descent are often treated as a single racial, ethnic and cultural group (such as African Americans in...

adopted. The AME Church worked out of the Free African Society (FAS), which Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and other free blacks established in Philadelphia in...

An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related...

the Free African Society of Philadedelphia. Philadelphia's first black organization, the Free African Society was established in 1787 by two African American...

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia...

founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many...

the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and...

minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members. In many African American houses, the concept...

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now Liberia. The area was first settled in 1834 by freed African-American slaves and freeborn African Americans primarily from the U.S. state of Maryland...

in the Department of Education Free African Union Society Free African Society American Anti-Slavery Society African Methodist Episcopal Church Colored...

community in Philadelphia, he also became a founding member of the Free African Society in the city. Born in Burlington, New Jersey, on February 2, 1732...

history in African society". General History of Africa: Volume 1. UNESCO Publishing. Wiredu, Kwasi (2005), Wiredu, Kwasi (ed.), "Introduction: African Philosophy...

the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and the East African Community to form the African Free Trade Zone, including all members of each of...

of the Free African Society was requested by the city and readily agreed to by its members. Parties mistakenly assumed that people of African descent...

Jones founded the Free African Society in 1787, a mutual aid society, and Allen, with his wife Sarah Allen, established the Bethel African Methodist Church...

The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was an organization of African-American writers, artists, and scholars. The society was founded as a result...

Paradigm: Historians and the Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on African Societies", African Economic History, 1994. "Manilla or penannular bracelet currency"...

by African Americans. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. The church was proposed in 1791 by members of the Free African Society of...

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was...

Colonization Society. Their goal was to remove free people of color and freed slaves from their state to the developing colony of Liberia on the African continent...

Wessels, South African Military History Journal, Vol. 11 No. 5, June 2000, South African Military History Society. John Keene (1995). South Africa in World...

Colonization Society was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose of returning free African Americans...