1Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves, [ca. 20 October] 1789 (Madison Papers)
As long as JM was a public official his pronouncements on slavery were circumspect, but in retirement he let his attitude be known and became president of the American Colonization Society (see “James Madison’s Attitude toward the Negro,”
2To James Madison from George Washington, 13 February 1796 (Madison Papers)
) to Cresson, a Philadelphia Quaker merchant and leading member of the American Colonization Society.
3To John Jay from William Hamilton, 8 March 1796 (Jay Papers)
...Hamilton (1773–1836) was a carpenter and community activist. He was the first president of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief, and a member of the Phoenixonian Society, and the Philomath Society. He opposed the American Colonization Society’s efforts to relocate blacks. Many of his
4From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 30 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
...for Vermont until early March 1801, and from 1815 to 1817, he represented Woodstock in the U.S. House of Representatives. A trustee of Dartmouth College (1809–49), Marsh was one of the founding members of the American Colonization Society and belonged to the American Bible and American Education societies. Dartmouth College awarded him the degree of LL.D. in 1828.
5To George Washington from Marie-Jeanne-Jacqueline-Antoinette Pernot, 12 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
...the Jacobins in September 1797. Around 1799, Eleuthère moved to the United States, where he established a powder works near Wilmington, Del.; served as director of the Bank of the United States; and was active in the American Colonization Society. During the War of 1812, Eleuthère became the chief supplier of powder for the U.S. government.
6Note on the Virginia Resolutions, 10 January, and the Address of the General Assembly to the People of the Commonwealth … (Madison Papers)
...exercise over the final stages of publishing JM’s manuscripts. His place was taken by Philip R. Fendall, a Washington attorney and former secretary of the American Colonization Society, whom the Joint Committee had originally engaged sometime over the winter of 1859–60 to proofread and to compile the index for the congressional edition ([Philip R. Fendall], “Memo: Concg. Madison’s Letters...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, Jr., 12 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
bankruptcy, a founding member of the American Colonization Society, and for many years a commander of the local militia. Above all was his long and influential legal career. With “unsurpassed, if not unequalled” litigating skills and an “encyclopedic knowledge of the law,” Jones sat...
8From James Madison to Walter Jones Jr., 20 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
...the War of 1812, he fought in the Battle of Bladensburg; in 1821 Monroe appointed him brigadier general of militia; eventually he became major general of the District of Columbia. He was a founding member of both the American Colonization Society and the Washington National Monument Society and was strongly opposed to the secession movement that led to the Civil War.
9Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 6 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
He was also active in the American Colonization Society, the
10Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
and serving as an officer of the American Colonization Society