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title: 'Address to the American Colonization Society'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Samuel Irenaeus Prime'
date: 1869-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Colonization'
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
scriptures:
- 'John 14'
- 'Exodus 14'
- 'Deuteronomy 34'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/prime-1869-address-to-the-american-colonization-society
---

# Address to the American Colonization Society

1869 address urging voluntary colonization of freed Black Americans to Liberia as philanthropic and missionary work to civilize and Christianize Africa. Appeals to liberty and racial destiny.

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