Letters on the Colonization Society and on its probable results : addressed to the Hon[orable] C.F. Mercer, M.H.R.U.S. / by M. Carey ; to which is prefixed the important information collected by Joseph Jones, a coloured man, lately sent to Liberia, by the Kentucky Colonization Society, to ascertain the true state of the country--its productions, trade, and commerce--and the situation and prospects of the colonists.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Contributor:

Kentucky Colonization Society.

Jones, Joseph.

Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858.

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 for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 32, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

10th ed.

Other Title:

Letters on the Colonization Society and on its probable results

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : For sale by Carey & Hart, 1835 (Stereotyped by L. Johnson)

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.

OCLC:

12