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America's First Civil Rights Movement

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The American Colonization Society and Liberia

Colonization came from a variety of different political persuasion some were more pro-slavery than others but their idea generally speaking was this country needs free black people to leave and they thought go to Liberia where they would be at. The leadership of the american colonization society included as you said chief justice marshal um henry clay a lot of prominent people in the wig party in particular  and they kept hammering away at this issue i mean it's most people often talk about it most for like the 1820sUm Some radical white radical abolitionists started out life as colonizationists and then came to reject colonization and argue for a multiracial democracy william loy garrison is

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