Reasons Of The American Colonization Society

The American Colonization Society was established by Robert Finely in 1816. This is an organization founded to help free African American slaves. The idea was to give the African Americans slaves the chance to emigrate back to Africa. The goals of the American Colonization Society were to free America of slavery and colored people. The first thought of the removal of slaves was during the colonial era. The Euro-Americans wanted a predominant white culture, so the idea grew more and more over time. When the Revolutionary period came, the white people seriously considered removing the black people in the country, but it was not until the early 1800s when the removal actually took place. Free black people and slaves started to grow in population, …show more content…
Middle of the 1820s, a women named Margret Mercer of Maryland was a slaveholder and she decided to educate the slaves and send them to Liberia. She came up with her own manumission plan and reached out to a friend to write a pro-American Colonization Society book that would show the better sides of the American Colonization Society to persuade more people into funding and believing in the organization.1 Also, Margret Mercer taught her slaves how to read, one of her slaves received medical education, but when the time came for the slaves to leave, they declined on leaving for Liberia. Margret Mercer kept them as slaves until she finally let them free saying that her slaves are, “human flesh and blood, souls belonging to the God that made them, I should have yielded. But I have determined to abide by the consequences.”1 Many American Colonization Society members believed slavery was a moral issue. Even so, only a few freed their slaves. Those that chose to keep their slaves sent them to manumission programs that would help them learn and grow, so they can conduct a well establishment in Liberia. In the time frame of 1820 and 1822, the American Colonization Society only transported free black people, and by 1934 there was 1,252 free slaves that went to …show more content…
In 1904, the American Colonization Society started to fall apart. The American Colonization Society’s Committee on Auxiliary Societies reported, “…it has small revenue and vested funds.”3 The American Colonization Society held a meeting on January 8, 1962 over the colony in Liberia and to consider ending the American Colonization Society.3 The last standing directors: John H. Small III, Joshua Evans Jr., Vernon E. West. John Sleman, and J. Wesley Clampitt Jr ruled in power of authorization to officially ceased the American Colonization Society on March 22, 1963. All of the American Colonization Society’s activities ended.3 Although the American Colonization Society were viewed as racist men covering their acts with religion, we see that the members of the American Colonization Society have justified their beliefs with giving the free African Americans actual freedom to chose to emigrate to Liberia and start a colony their or stay in America and keep their