The Maryland State Colonization Society was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose of sending free African Americans to what many So
Constitution and Laws of Maryland in Liberia, published by the Maryland State Colonization Society, 1847
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a planter, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and president of the MSCS in 1828
Physician and philanthropist Richard Sprigg Steuart served on the Board of Managers of the MSCS.
Cape Palmas mission, c. 1840
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The Republic of Maryland was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia. The area was first settled in 1834 by freed African-American slaves a
Maryland State Colonization Society
…ACS helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821–22, as a place for freedmen. The Maryland State Colonization Society was responsible for founding the Republic of Maryland in West Africa, a short lived independent state that in 1857 was annexed by Liberia. The goal of the society was "to be a remedy for slavery", such…
Etching of Cape Palmas, circa 1853.
John Brown Russwurm, first mixed-race governor of the Republic of Maryland (1836–1851).