African Civilization Society

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The African Civilization Society was an emigration organization founded in 1858 by several prominent members of the historic African-American Weeksville community located in central Brooklyn, New York. Following the Civil War and emancipation of slaves, it changed its focus to helping provide basic needs to the millions of freedmen in the South, and to establishing schools to educate them. It recruited 129 teachers to go to the South to teach. rdf:langString
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rdf:langString The African Civilization Society was an emigration organization founded in 1858 by several prominent members of the historic African-American Weeksville community located in central Brooklyn, New York. Following the Civil War and emancipation of slaves, it changed its focus to helping provide basic needs to the millions of freedmen in the South, and to establishing schools to educate them. It recruited 129 teachers to go to the South to teach.
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