What does ACS stand for?

American Colonization Society

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Samples in periodicals archive:

It was founded as a colony by the American Colonization Society in 1821-22.

Pak terror suspect swallows sim-card in Liberia

In Africa, the white representative of the American Colonization Society held a gun to the head of a tribal king and aggrandized for its new immigrants all 130 square miles of what became Liberia.

Helene Cooper. The House on Sugar Beach

6, 1820, the American Colonization Society, an incongruous mix of mostly Quakers and slaveholders, dispatched a ship from New York Harbor in a bold experiment to repatriate 88 freeborn blacks to Africa's steamy west coast.

A lost Liberian childhood just out of her reach; BOOK REVIEW

The 12-ton cornerstone was stuffed with all sorts of memorabilia, including 71 contemporary newspapers, a 1783 penny and an annual report of the American Colonization Society.

On time, on budget? Not the Washington Monument

The American Colonization Society Allan Yarema The University Press of America c/o The Rowman & Littleman Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 0761833595 $19.

The American Colonization Society

The American Colonization Society Allan Yarema The University Press of America c/o The Rowman & Littleman Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 0761833595 $19.

The American Colonization Society

In addition, the Stone Collection holds extensive runs of annual reports for the American Colonization Society and the African Methodist Episcopal Church as well as many nineteenth-century catalogs for Fisk University, Howard University, and the Tuskegee Institute.

Libraries and archives

describes the history of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 as a social movement to colonize free blacks in Africa.

The American Colonization Society; an avenue to freedom?