The brief career of Rufus W. Bailey, American Colonization society agent in Virginia.(Biography)

Journal of Southern History | February 1, 2005| | Copyright

THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY (ACS), A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION headquartered in Washington, D.C., and dedicated to repatriating Americans of African descent, has been the subject of controversy almost from the date of its founding in 1817. Was its main goal the ultimate eradication of slavery in the United States, as many supporters claimed, or to purge American society of its free non-white population? The society's constitution declared that it would not interfere with slavery, yet several thousand slaves were manumitted and sent to the society's holdings in the colony ...

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