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The American Colonization Society: Back to Africa vs American Inclusion and the Struggle Over Identity

Seward Park Library 192 East Broadway, New York

Formed in 1816 during a time of racial unrest, the American Colonization Society, with support from some Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and U.S. presidents such as Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, believed that freed enslaved people could not integrate into American society, and thus ought to seek their destiny in Liberia.