# African Repository

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The '''''African Repository and Colonial Journal''''', title simplified in 1850 to the '''''African Repository''''', was the official publication of the [American Colonization Society](/source/American_Colonization_Society), which supported the migration of free American Blacks to Africa, specifically to its colony of [Liberia](/source/Liberia). It began publication in 1825. The name of the magazine was changed in 1892 to ''Liberia''. It is a primary source for the early [history of Liberia](/source/history_of_Liberia).<ref>{{cite web |last=|first=|url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2054|title=The African Repository and Colonial Journal (periodical)|publisher=[University of Kentucky](/source/University_of_Kentucky)|accessdate=September 6, 2022}}</ref>

The ''African Repository'' was edited for 25 years by [Ralph Randolph Gurley](/source/Ralph_Randolph_Gurley), an American Colonization Society administrator.<ref>{{cite web |last=|first=|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Randolph-Gurley|title=Ralph Randolph Gurley|publisher=[Encyclopedia Britannica](/source/Encyclopedia_Britannica)|accessdate=November 19, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015034103245&view=2up&seq=8 Index to volumes 1-10]
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004565311 Link to digitized issues of the ''African Repository'']

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Category:American colonization movement
Category:African-American magazines
Category:Defunct political magazines published in the United States
Category:History magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1825
Category:Magazines published in Washington, D.C.

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