We’re talking about the Monroe Doctrine when we should be talking about the American Colonization movement. Not as a distraction, but as acknowledgement that what we are living through has its roots in some of the earliest movements of exclusion in this country’s history. Please watch…and learn more. – ALD
Sources:
American Colonization Society. Annual Report of the American Colonization Society: With Minutes of the Annual Meeting and of the Board of Directors. (Washington D.C.), American Colonization Society, 1910 1818, 91 volumes.
Guyatt, Nicholas. The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick” – AAIHS. Abolitionism. December 22, 2016.
Sparks, Jared. A Historical Outline of the American Colonization Society, and Remarks on the Advantages and Practicability of Colonizing in Africa the Free People of Color from the United States .. O. Everett, 1824.
Staudenraus, P. J. The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865. Octagon Books, 1980.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917. Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, 2007.
WHHA (En-US). “The American Colonization Society.” Accessed January 8, 2026.
Monroe’s December 1823 Address: