Letters on /the Colonization Society : with a view of 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. Fenton Mercer, M.H.R.U.S by M. Carey

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Contributor:

Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858.

Young

Ashmun, J. (Jehudi), 1794-1828.

American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States

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.

Physical Description:

iv, [1], 6-32, [2] leaves of plates : 1 ill., 2 maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

3rd ed., enl. and improved. [Fifteen lines from Cresson].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, : May 29, 1832. Young, printer., [1832]

Notes:

"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].

Dated: May 29, 1832.

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