Petitions Received By Congressmen Asking For Appropriations
Aid Of Parties Wishing To Emigrate To Liberia
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Petitions Received By Congressmen Asking For Appropriations
Aid Of Parties Wishing To Emigrate To Liberia
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In 1817, in Washington, D.C. the American Colonization Society began operating as an organization dedicated to removing free blacks from the country. Organized with Bushrod Washington as president, Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke. [Randolph lived most his life in Charlotte County, Va.] The Society founded Liberia in 1821. Some 15,000 were transported there.