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    The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded...
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    The Maryland State Colonization Society was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose...
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    to no colonization at all until the 1800s. European contact and colonization had disastrous effects on the indigenous peoples of the Americas and their...
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  • the idea of colonization in 1770.[full citation needed] Sierra Leone Company Maryland State Colonization Society African Colonization Society, (1800–1816)...
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    the American Colonization Society had migrated approximately 15,000 free blacks back to Africa. Notable members of the American Colonization Society included...
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  • Look up colonization or colonisation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colonization is the process of establishing a colony. Colonization or colonisation...
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    Republic of Maryland (category African-American repatriation organizations)
    [page needed] The Maryland State Colonization Society was originally a branch of the American Colonization Society, which had founded the colony of Liberia...
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  • Ralph Randolph Gurley (category People of the American colonization movement)
    1872) was an American clergyman, an advocate of the separation of the races, and a major force for 50 years in the American Colonization Society. It offered...
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    emigration of African Americans, both freeborn and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society (ACS). The mortality...
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    Thomas Church Brownell (category Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America)
    the Managers of the Colonization Society of Connecticut (New-Haven: Treadway and Adams, 1828), p. 5, 7. "American Colonization Society | abolitionist organization...
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    began its colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities...
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    failures of existing anti-slavery organizations, such as the American Colonization Society. AASS formally dissolved in 1870. AASS was founded by William...
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    territorial hemispheres for exclusive conquest and colonization. Portugal colonized parts of South America (Brazil, Colónia do Sacramento, Uruguay, Guanare...
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    Colony of Liberia (category American colonization movement)
    formed the Confederate States of America at the beginning of the American Civil War. The American Colonization Society did not act alone in creating the...
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    of Liberia, a colony founded and controlled by the private American Colonization Society, was an independent state known as the Republic of Liberia....
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    Robert Finley (category People of the American colonization movement)
    3, 1817) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who is known as one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, which established...
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    British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England...
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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492...
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    France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western...
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    added Captain James Hall's Voyage to Greenland in 1612 London: Hakluyt Society. 1897 Cranz, David & al. The History of Greenland: including an account...
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    Kobtzeff, Oleg (1985). La Colonization russe en Amérique du Nord: 18 - 19 ème siècles [Russian Colonization in North America, 18th-19th Centuries] (in...
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    who coined the term genocide – colonization is intrinsically genocidal. During the 1960s, settlement and colonization were perceived as separate phenomena...
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    ethnic group. It was founded on April 5, 1822, by members of the American Colonization Society (ACS) as an organization to return former slaves born in the...
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    It was particularly opposed to the American Colonization Society, which proposed sending African Americans to Africa. The founding meeting took place on...
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    advocate of abolitionism and colonization. In 1848 Mitchell took the job of Secretary of the American Colonization Society of Indiana, and first met Abraham...
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    was held by the governor of Liberia, who was appointed by the American Colonization Society. The 1847 Constitution transferred the executive powers of the...
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    and the American Colonization Society (ACS), a private organization dedicated to the removal of free people of color from across North America. Some time...
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  • Samuel John Mills (category People of the American colonization movement)
    of the American Colonization Society in 1817. The latter was intended to establish a colony in West Africa as a destination for free American blacks....
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  • Thoughts on African Colonization is a treatise by William Lloyd Garrison criticizing the American Colonization Society and segregation as immoral and improper...
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    James Forten (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    Americans in both the city and nationwide. Beginning in 1817, he opposed the colonization movements, particularly that of the American Colonization Society...
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