Many of the New World colonies – notably the US – won their independence in the 18th century, causing European powers to focus their attentions on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

He omits no opportunity to advance their claims, and especially to press forward his favorite scheme of Indian Colonization. In a letter lately addressed to the Editor of the Washington Union ...

The American Colonization Society ... a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Finley believed that blacks would never be fully integrated into American society and that they ...