Book/Printed Material Republic of Liberia: facts for thinking men, showing the present condition of slave labor and free labor, in tropical and semi-tropical countries; and the indispensable necessity of African colonization; being letters originally addressed to the citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, through the Herald and the Plain dealer, daily papers of this city.--Feb. 1852 African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA. FACTS FOR THINKING MEN: SHOWING THE PRESENT CONDITION OF SLAVE LABOR and FREE LABOR, In tropical and semi-tropical countries; and the indispensable necessity of African Colonization; being Letters originally…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy within its limits, and the way is thus opened for the permanent introduction of civilization and christianity, and the redemption of its population from heathenism. About one-half of this 200 miles of…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 3 Act of England, and it was followed by a still farther increase of the slave trade, running up the exports of slaves from Africa, between 1835 and 1840, to 135,800 per…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 to test, fully, its adaptation to the production of cotton. Thus far the prospects are very favorable. And here we may also note: that it is perhaps not so much from…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 the virtue of a little powder and shot, on some slavers in the ports of Brazil, and it had acted like a charm. That government at once agreed to stop the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 century of unwearied exertion, the progress of events has so complicated this great problem, that at the very moment when the slave trade is supposed to be extinguished, and tropical free…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 importance of their cultivation. But Liberia can command an unbounded extent of fertile tropical lands, well adapted to the cultivation of all the three great staples, coffee, sugar and cotton. She…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 cause of human freedom in Africa. And allow us farther to say, we do not expect that these 500,000 free colored persons, by emigrating to Liberia, will be able, by the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Christy, David
- Date: 1852
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Title
- Republic of Liberia: facts for thinking men, showing the present condition of slave labor and free labor, in tropical and semi-tropical countries; and the indispensable necessity of African colonization; being letters originally addressed to the citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, through the Herald and the Plain dealer, daily papers of this city.--Feb. 1852
Names
- Christy, David, 1802-
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [Cleveland, Ohio, Harris, Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1852]
Headings
- - African Americans--Colonization--Africa
- - Slave labor--United States
- - Liberia
Notes
- - Caption title.
Medium
- 8 p. 21 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E448 .C555
- E185 .A254 container C, no. 55 Another copy. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16888. Source unknown.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11008767
Online Format
- online text
- image