Founded in 1816, the society, whose members included future presidents Andrew Jackson and James Monroe, advocated the creation of a colony in western Africa for the formerly enslaved. In 1847, that colony achieved independence and became the nation of Liberia ( here ). Eleven thousand African Americans emigrated to Liberia between 18, 7,000 of whom gained freedom from slavery by agreeing to emigrate ( here ). More information on the American Colonization Society, provided by the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia, can be found here . Hanson’s daguerreotype, part of a series of portraits of African American leaders in Liberia, was taken by Augustus Wilson, a free Black man associated with the American Colonization Society. The image of the Black man shows an early daguerreotype photo of John Hanson, viewable here , published between 18. Hanson, a former slave who had purchased his own freedom, arrived in Liberia in 1827, where he became a merchant and later a senator in Grand Bassa County, Liberia ( here, here ). The posts confuse two men by the name of John Hanson, misspelled as “Hansen,” one white and the other Black. Examples of these posts can be found here , here , and here .
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