The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, commonly known as the American Colonization Society (ACS), was a group established in 1816 by Robert Finley of New Jersey to encourage and support the migration of free African Americans to the continent of Africa. The society helped found settlements in Liberia as a place for free-born or manumitted (but not fugitive) American blacks, close to Sierra Leone where there was already...
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