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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.
Hall did so, and served as governor of the colony of Maryland-in-Africa from October 1833 until his resignation in July 1836. [4] After his resignation, he returned to the United States. Hall continued work with the Maryland State Colonization Society, as a general agent, as well as with the American Colonization Society , as a commercial agent ...
Latrobe, John H. B., p. 125, Maryland in Liberia: a History of the Colony Planted By the Maryland State Colonization Society Under the Auspices of the State of Maryland, U. S. At Cape Palmas on the South-West Coast of Africa, 1833–1853 (1885). Retrieved Feb 16 2010; Rhodes, Jason, Somerset County, Maryland: a Brief History Retrieved August 11 ...
George had built up connections with the leaders of the colonization movement, and served as the vice agent of Liberia for one year, among other privileged positions in the colony. In 1827, the state of Maryland founded their own colonization society separate from that of the American Colonization Society.
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.
The Maryland State Colonization Society was established in Maryland in the United States in 1830. [1] The group established the Maryland Colony in Africa on 22 February 1834. [2] After Liberia declared independence in 1847, the desire for independence also grew in Maryland, and the settlers presented a petition to the authorities for a referendum.
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