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Letters on the Colonization Society and on its probable results : addressed to the Hon[orable] C.F. Mercer / 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.
- Slave trade--Africa.
- Slave trade.
- Liberia.
- American Colonization Society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 p., [2] leaves of plates ) ill., maps ;
- Edition:
- 7th ed.
- Other Title:
- Letters on the Colonization Society and on its probable results
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1833.
- Notes:
- "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."
- Two columns to the page.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 10870.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 12
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