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Constitution and Laws of Maryland in Liberia, published by the Maryland State Colonization Society, 1847. The Maryland State Colonization Society was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose of returning free African Americans to what many Southerners considered greater freedom in Africa.
The Maryland State Colonization Society was originally a branch of the American Colonization Society, which had founded the colony of Liberia at Monrovia on January 7, 1822. The Maryland Society decided to establish a new settlement of its own to accommodate its emigrants and with the intention of controlling trade to its colony.
Russwurm became supportive of the American Colonization Society's efforts to develop a colony for African Americans in Africa, and he moved in 1829 to what became Liberia. In 1836 Russwurm was selected as governor of Maryland in Africa, a small colony set up nearby by the Maryland State Colonization Society. He served there until his death.
Maryland Historical Society; Maryland Military Historical Society; Maryland State Archives; Maryland: State Resource Guide, from the Library of Congress; Boston Public Library, Map Center. Maps of Maryland Archived June 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, various dates. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Maryland" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York ...
Thomas John Jackson (1792 – 1852) was an African-American former slave from Frederick County, Maryland, United States, who emigrated to Cape Palmas in the 19th century. . Thomas Jackson was one of the most prominent early Americo-Liberian and was among the early American settlers of Lib
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Maryland State Colonization Society; African Colonization Society, (1800–1816) Based in the state of Virginia, perhaps at Richmond; American Colonization Society (1817–onwards) Somehow, it became intermingled with the National Colonization Society. Samuel John Mills (1783–1818) was the founder, in conjunction with Dr. Finley
In 1828, aged 91, he served as president of the Auxiliary State Colonization Society of Maryland, [29] the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization dedicated to returning Black Americans to lead free lives in African states such as Liberia.