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James Hall (colonial agent)
James Hall was an American physician and colonisation agent who led the first settlers of the Maryland State Colonization Society to West Africa in 1834. He bought land at Cape Palmas from Grebo rulers and founded the settlement of Harper, the beginning of Maryland in Africa, which later became the Republic of Maryland. He served as the colony's first agent before returning to Baltimore.
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