On February 6, 1820, a contingent of 88 free Black individuals embarked on a journey to the British colony of Sierra Leone aboard a vessel known as the Mayflower of Liberia. Financed by the U.S. Congress and coordinated by the American Colonization Society, a Quaker group, this endeavor was driven by the belief among many […]
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