Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material American Colonization Society records,

Title

• American Colonization Society records,

Summary

• Correspondence, financial and business papers, reports, and miscellaneous material relating to administrative and financial matters, membership, slavery and status of slaves in the pre-Civil War period, and emigration, colonization, and education in Liberia. Includes William McLain's papers and letterbooks of the Massachusetts Colonization Society. Correspondents include J. Ashmun, one of the society's early colonial agents; Stephen Allen Benson; Thomas Buchanan; Elliott Cresson; Thomas R. Hazard; John H.B. Latrobe; James Washington Lugenbeel; Joseph J. Roberts; and Gerrit Smith.

Names

• American Colonization Society
• McLain, William
• American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States
• Massachusetts Colonization Society

Headings

• -  Ashmun, J.--(Jehudi),--1794-1828--Correspondence
• -  Benson, Stephen Allen,--1816-1865--Correspondence
• -  Buchanan, Thomas,---1841--Correspondence
• -  Cresson, Elliott,--1796-1854--Correspondence
• -  Hazard, Thomas R.--(Thomas Robinson),--1797-1886--Correspondence
• -  Latrobe, John H. B.--(John Hazlehurst Boneval),--1803-1891--Correspondence
• -  Lugenbeel, J. W.--(James Washington),--1819?-1857--Correspondence
• -  Roberts, Joseph J.--(Joseph Jenkins),--1809-1876--Correspondence
• -  Smith, Gerrit,--1797-1874--Correspondence
• -  African Americans--Colonization--Africa
• -  Education--Liberia
• -  Freed persons--Colonization--Africa, West
• -  Slavery--United States
• -  Liberia--Colonization

Notes

• -  Arranged in seven series. Series I: Incoming Correspondence, 1819-1917; Series II: Outgoing Correspondence, 1839-1912; Series III: General Correspondence, 1909-1965; Series IV: Financial Papers, 1818-1963; Series V: Business Papers, 1816-1963; Series VI: Subject File, 1792-1964; and Series VII: Miscellany, 1835-1935.
• -  American Colonization Society Records at the Library of Congress available onsite at the Library of Congress or offsite with a subscription to Gale through the Debates over Slavery and Abolition Archive on the Gale Primary Sources website at https://go.gale.com/ps/aboutThisCollection?p=SAS&u=loc_main&mCode=2UMI&sid=SAS External
• -  American Colonization Society Records at the Library of Congress available onsite at the Library of Congress or offsite to individuals with a Fold3 account through the Fold3 by Ancestry website at https://www.fold3.com/publication/2/american-colonization-society External
• -  Microfilm edition available, no. 14,745.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1970-1977.
• -  Gift, American Colonization Society, 1913, 1964-1965.
• -  Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
• -  Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Founded as the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States in Washington, D.C., in 1817, to support the return of free African Americans to Africa. Incorporated as the American Colonization Society in 1837 in Maryland. The society helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821-1822. Dissolved in 1964.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009329

Medium

• 190,000 items.
• 717 containers.
• 331 microfilm reels.
• 168 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm78010660

Access Advisory

• Open to research.
• Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78010660

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record