Champlain native set up ‘Little America’ on Africa’s west coast | News

PLATTSBURGH — The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly enslaved Blacks and free Blacks on the African continent.

Liberia was called “Little America” by President James Monroe, for which the country’s West African capital, Monrovia, is named for.

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