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Jehudi Ashmun: A Founder & Historian of Liberia

September 14, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Map of Liberia Colony in the 1830s, created by the ACS, and also showing Mississippi Colony and other state-sponsored coloniesBorn and raised in the town of Champlain, Clinton County, NY, Jehudi Ashmun (1794 – 1828) was a religious leader and social reformer who helped lead efforts by the American Colonization Society to “repatriate” African Americans to a colony in West Africa.

The organization, formed in 1816 by Quakers and slaveholders, founded the colony of Liberia as a place to resettle free people of color from the United States, believing in part that Black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States. [Read more…] about Jehudi Ashmun: A Founder & Historian of Liberia

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: American Colonization Society, Black History, Champlain, Clinton County, Clinton County Historical Association, Connecticut, Liberia, Maine, Middlebury College, Political History, Quakers, Religious History, Slavery, University of Vermont, Vermont

Town of Maine Demisemiseptcentennial Celebration

March 5, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

maine nyThe Town of Maine and the Nanticoke Valley Historical Society in Broome County, NY, have joined forces with the Town Rec Committee and several community members to plan a weekend of activities surrounding the town’s 175th anniversary celebration. [Read more…] about Town of Maine Demisemiseptcentennial Celebration

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Maine

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