To facilitate the migration of free people of color from the United States to the Colony of Liberia. Robert Finley founded the American Colonization Society.

American Colonization Society, American organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa. It was founded in 1816 by Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister, and …

Jun 22, 2020 · Formed to assist in the colonization and removal of free Black people, the ACS quickly recruited support and financial backing from enslavers, the Protestant and Presbyterian churches, …

Apr 1, 2019 · Starting in 1816, the American Colonization Society—which counted future presidents James Monroe and Andrew Jackson among its members—sought to create a colony in Africa for this …

By 1867, the American Colonization Society helped more than 13,000 freedmen and former slaves emigrate to Liberia. The organization was formally dissolved in 1964. The American Colonization …

The ACS supported the migration of free American Blacks back to Africa. From 1821 to 1822, the Society helped establish a colony on the Pepper Coast of West Africa (Liberia) as a location for free …

The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States. In 1822, the society established on the west …

The American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States was organized on December 21, 1816, in the Davis Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The society’s program focused on purchasing and freeing slaves, paying their passage (and that of free blacks) to the west coast of Africa, and assisting them after their arrival there.

May 27, 2024 · The American Colonization Society (ACS) was founded in 1816 with the primary intention of repatriating free African Americans and emancipated slaves to a colony in West Africa.