“Emigrants to Liberia” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper

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The American Colonization Society was formed in 1817, to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States. In 1822, the society established a colony on the west coast of Africa that became the independent nation of Liberia in 1847. By 1867, the society had sent more than 13,000 emigrants to Africa. Beginning in the 1830s, the society was harshly attacked by abolitionists, who tried to discredit colonization as an enslaver’s scheme. This article reports on some of these emigrants leaving from Baltimore, Maryland, Norfolk, Virginia, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The Gazette & Mercury was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 27, 1837, to July 13, 1841, when it changed its name to the Gazette & Courier.

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Item typeArticle
PublisherGreenfield Gazette and Mercury
Date1837-12-19
TopicSlavery, Indenture
Organizations, Associations, Societies, Clubs
EraNational Expansion and Reform, 1816–1860
MaterialPaper
Process/FormatPrinting
Dimension detailsProcess Material: printed paper, ink Height: 2.00 in Width: 3.50 in
Catalog #L05.021
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Greenfield Gazette and Mercury. “Emigrants to Liberia.” December 19, 1837. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l05-021/. Accessed on February 7, 2025.

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