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American Colonization Society

LC control no.n 78081197
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingAmerican Colonization Society
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Variant(s)ACS
African Colonisation Society
American Colonisation Society
American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (1837-1964)
Colonization Society
See alsoPredecessor: American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States
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Beginning date1837
Ending date1964
Found inBeyan, A.J. The American Colonization Society ... c1990: CIP introd. (ACS)
A narrative of Thomas Smallwood, (Coloured man), 2001: p. 15 (African Colonisation Society)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (Organized 1817)
American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. Annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, 1818: t.p. (American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States)
Its Constitution of the American Colonization Society, 1818: p. 1 (American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States)
Its First annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color, of the United States, 1818.
Carey, M. Letters on the Colonization Society, 1832.
Its Annual report of the American Colonization Society, 1881.
Library of Congress, via WWW, July 30, 2019: Exhibitions: The African-American Mosaic: Colonization (American Colonization Society; formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States; dissolved 1964)
MWA/NAIP files, July 30, 2019 (access point: American Colonization Society; usages: American Colonization Society; American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States; American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States; variants: African Colonisation Society; American Colonisation Society; ACS; note: from its establishment in 1817 used the names American Colonization Society as well as American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, but known colloquially from that time primarily as American Colonization Society)
MWA/NAIP files (organized 1817 as American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States; name changed 3/22/1837 when incorporated in Md. as American Colonization Society; works by this body are entered under the name used at time of publication)
Its Annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, 1818: t.p. (American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States)