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Events on Saturday 21 December 1816 1
1816American Colonization Society foundedWashington group formed to resettle free Black Americans in AfricaA group of politicians and clergymen, including Henry Clay and Francis Scott Key, founded the American Colonization Society in Washington, D.C. to promote the emigration of free African Americans to a colony in West Africa, a project that led to the founding of Liberia in 1822.