Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister, founds the American Colonization Society, for the purpose of settling freedmen in west Africa (Liberia).
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 78.
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