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The article presents information on the American Colonization Society, which was founded in Washington D.C., to encourage the emigration of free Afro-Americans to Africa. The chief organ her and main founder of the Colonization Society was a Virginia Federalists Charles Fenton Mercer. As a delegate to the Virginia General Assembly in 1816, he had introduced and carried through a resolution in support of colonization for free Afro-Americans at federal expense. Virginians had long been uneasy with the status and presence of the free Afro-American population, but it was an extraordinary moment in history when they could be persuaded to ask for federal government assistance. |
