Peoples & MigrationThe 1810s

Peoples & Migration in the 1810s

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1810s, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
1816
Latest
1816

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    Liberia

    Founding of the American Colonization Society

    The American Colonization Society was established in the United States to resettle free-born and freed African Americans in West Africa, drawing together abolitionists and slaveholders with sharply differing motives.

    Era: The American Colonization Society settlement

    Sources: Monrovia, Liberia (1822– ) · BlackPast.org, History of Liberia: A Time Line · U.S. Library of Congress, Liberia — History (Colonialism, Civil War, Reconstruction) · Encyclopaedia Britannica