The formation of the American Colonization Society
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African Americans; Colonization; Free African Americans; Freed persons; Missions; American Colonization Society
Other titles: Journal of Negro history.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Sherwood's article for the Journal of Negro History covers the first hundred years (1714-1817) of the American Colonization Society. Various forces that came together in this organization urged the deportation of emancipated slaves and free black Americans to Africa. The essay ends with a description of the Society's first annual meeting in January, 1817.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: The formation of the American Colonization Society. p. 209-228. Caption title. Originally published in: The Journal of Negro history. Vol. 2, no. 3 [July 1917]. Signed at the end: Henry Noble Sherwood, Ph. D. State Normal School, La Crosse, Wis.

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