Illustration: coat of arms for Liberia, reflecting the nation’s origins. Credit: FXXX; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Free Blacks Left U.S. to Form New African Colony

By Tony Pettinato on February 6, 2018

An article about the American Colonization Society’s 1820 voyage of freed blacks going to Africa from the U.S.A.; the new colony became Liberia in 1847... (Read More)