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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[orable] C.F. Mercer, M.H.R.U.S. / by M. Carey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Colonization--Africa.
- African Americans.
- Liberia--Description and travel.
- Liberia.
- American Society of Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates ) ill., maps ;
- Edition:
- 5th ed. / greatly enl. and improved.
- Other Title:
- Letters on the Colonization Society and on its probable results
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1832.
- Notes:
- Two columns to the page.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 10870.
- OCLC:
- 12
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