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Book/Printed Material 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.

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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.

Names

  • Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
  • Kentucky Colonization Society.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia, For sale by Carey & Hart: Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1834.

Headings

  • -  American Colonization Society
  • -  African Americans--Colonization--Africa
  • -  Liberia--History--To 1847

Notes

  • -  Cover title.
  • -  "Ninth edition, 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."
  • -  Also available in digital form.

Medium

  • 4, iv, 32 p. front., map. 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E448 .C279
  • AC901 .M2 vol. 14, no. 5 Copy no. undetermined.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 11008699

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Carey, Mathew, and Kentucky Colonization Society. 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. Philadelphia, For sale by Carey & Hart: Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1834. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/11008699/.

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Carey, M. & Kentucky Colonization Society. (1834) 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. Philadelphia, For sale by Carey & Hart: Stereotyped by L. Johnson. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/11008699/.

MLA citation style:

Carey, Mathew, and Kentucky Colonization Society. 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. Philadelphia, For sale by Carey & Hart: Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1834. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/11008699/>.