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