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Colonization Society, American
The idea of restoring Africans in America to their native country occupied the minds of philanthropists at an early period.
It seems to have been first suggested by Rev. Samuel Hopkins and Rev. Ezra Stiles, of Newport, R. I., where the African slave-trade was extensively carried on. They issued a circular on the subject in August, 1773, in which they invited subscriptions to a fund for founding a colony of free negroes from America on the western shore of Africa.
A contribution was made by ladies of Newport in February, 1774, and aid was received from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
After the Revolution the effort was renewed by Dr. Hopkins, and he endeavored to make arrangements by which free blacks from America might join the English colony at Sierra Leone, established in 1787, for a home for destitute Africans from different parts of the world, and for promoting African civilization.
He failed.
In 1793 he proposed a plan of colonization to be