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AFRICANA 3<br />

AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY<br />

American Colonization Society. The American Colonization Society: A Register of its Records in<br />

the Library of Congress/Manuscript Division. <strong>Washington</strong>: The Library, 1979.<br />

Call Number: Special Collections E 448.U54 1979<br />

American Colonization Society. The…Annual Report of the American Society for the<br />

Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. <strong>Washington</strong>: The Society, 1818-<br />

1838.<br />

Call Number: Special Collections E 448.A51<br />

American Colonization Society. Half-Century Memorial 1867. <strong>Washington</strong>: Colonization<br />

Society Building, 1867.<br />

The history of the Colonization Society, through the use of addresses and minutes,<br />

charts the emigration of African Americans from <strong>Washington</strong>, D.C. to Africa, the<br />

related costs, and the subsequent founding of Liberia.<br />

Call Number: Special Collections E 448.A53<br />

American Colonization Society. A View of Exertions Lately Made for the Purpose of Colonizing<br />

the Free People of Color, in the United States, Africa, and Elsewhere. <strong>Washington</strong>, D.C.: Jonathan<br />

Elliot, 1817.<br />

These meeting minutes show the work of the American Colonization Society in 1817,<br />

and are part of the history of the colonizing effort.<br />

Call Number: Special Collections E 448.A5367<br />

Luther, Robert M. Reasons for Existence: the Annual Discourse Delivered at the Seventy-second<br />

Annual Meeting of the American Colonization Society, Held in the Baptist Church, <strong>Washington</strong>,<br />

D.C., Sunday Evening, January 13, 1889. <strong>Washington</strong>, D.C.: Colonization Building, 1889.<br />

Robert Luther argues there is still a need for the American Colonization Society after<br />

72 years of existence, even though slavery is over, because its mission of returning<br />

African Americans to Africa is still pertinent.<br />

Call Number: Special Collections E 448.L87 1889<br />

Samson, <strong>George</strong> W. Emancipation and Restoration to their Fatherland. <strong>Washington</strong> City:<br />

M’Gill & Witherow, Printers. 1874.<br />

The effort of the American Colonization Society to return freed slaves to Africa is<br />

explained in this address.<br />

Call Number: Special Collections E 448.S35 1874

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