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Letters on the Colonization Society ;, and on its probable results ; under the following heads : The origin of the Society ; Increase of the coloured population ; Manumission of slaves in this country ; Declarations of legislatures, and other assembled bodies, in favour of the Society : Situation of the colonists at Monrovia, and other towns ; Moral and religious character of the settlers ; Soil, climate, productions, and commerce of Liberia ; Advantages to the free coloured population, by emigration to Liberia ; Disadvantages of slavery to the white population ; Character of the natives of Africa before the irruptions of the barbarians ; Effects of colonization on the slave trade ; with a slight sketch of that nefarious and accursed traffic. : Addressed to the Hon. C.F. Mercer, M.H.R.U.S by M. Carey
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States.
- American Colonization Society.
- African Americans--Colonization--Africa.
- African Americans.
- Liberia--Description and travel.
- Liberia.
- Genre:
- Maps -- Liberia.
- Poems -- 1832.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- iv, [1], 6-32 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 ill., 2 maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Fifth ed., greatly enl. and improved. [Thirteen lines from Cresson].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, : Sept. 7, 1832. Stereotyped by L. Johnson., [1832]
- Notes:
- With a half-sheet advertisement ("To the public") tipped in, offering terms for bulk sale of this pamphlet. Signed: M. Carey. Philadelphia, August 11, 1832.
- Printed in two columns.
- "Section of a slave ship. From Walsh's Notes of Brazil."--plate [1].
- "Map of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa from a ms. map by the late Mr. Ashmun." and "Plan of the town of Monrovia."--plate [2].
- Poems "The African chief enslaved" by William Cullen Bryant and "Death of Ashmun" and "Liberia" by Lydia H. Sigourney, p. 32.
- Testimonials for the American Colonization Society, p. [3] of wrapper.
- Dated: Sept. 7, 1832.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 11662
- Sabin, 10870
- Contains:
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. African chief enslaved.
- Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865. Death of Ashmun.
- Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865. Liberia.
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