Sec of the Interior - Suppression of Slave Trade and Colonization
Records: 5,459Complete: 100%
Agents within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior were authorized by the Secretary of the Navy to receive any "Negroes, mulattos, or persons of color" found aboard vessels seized off the coast of Africa and relocate them to what is now known as Liberia. Their work parallels that of the American Colonization Society, the records for which are also available at Fold3.
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"Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization, 1854-72" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/472/sec-of-the-interior-suppression-of-slave-trade-and-colonization: accessed November 26, 2022)
- Publication Title
- Sec of the Interior - Suppression of Slave Trade and Colonization
- Total Records
- 5,459Complete: 100%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- M160
- Record Group
- 48
- Published on Fold3
- 05 Feb 2009
- Last Updated
- 05 Feb 2009
- Description
- NARA M160. Letters and other documents relating to the suppression of the African slave trade and the colonization of recaptured and free Negroes.