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Elliott Cresson

1796–1854 · 19th century

Elliott Cresson was a Quaker merchant and philanthropist from Philadelphia and a leading advocate of the American Colonization Society, which settled free African Americans in West Africa. He toured Britain in the early 1830s to raise funds for the cause. Port Cresson, the settlement that became Bassa Cove in Liberia, was named after him.

Elliott Cresson
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