1827 COLONIZATION SOCIETY. Proposed "Mass Deportation" of "Free People of Color" to Liberia. Puritan Edmund Calamy and His Account

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1827 COLONIZATION SOCIETY. Proposed "Mass Deportation" of "Free People of Color" to Liberia. Puritan Edmund Calamy and His AccountAn important report of a proposal before the United States Congress to formally allow the American Colonization Society to draft a plan that would enact a "mass deportation" of all free persons of color to Liberia. The proponents of the Colonization Society believed this to be the only solution on the grounds that meaningful integration between white and black persons was simply neither desirable or possible. The present document is among the most