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. /
by M. Carey.
Description
- Related Names
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Burkett, Randall K., collector.
Johnson, Lawrence, 1801-1860, stereotyper.
Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.
Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858.
Jones, Joseph.
Carey & Hart
Kentucky Colonization Society.
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Philadelphia : For sale by Carey & Hart, Sept. 17, 1834.
[Philadelphia] : Stereotyped by L. Johnson, [date of publication not identified]
- Edition
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Ninth edition /
- Note
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Three poems on page 32: The African chief enslaved, by W.C. Bryant; and Death of Ashmun, and Liberia, by Lydia Sigourney.
"The Liberian colony."--initial 4 pages, relates Jones' information.
"Addendum to the fifth edition. Extract from an address of the American Colonization Society, dated June, 1832."--Verso of title page.
Printed in two columns.
- Physical Description
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4, 32 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates :
1 illustration, 2 maps ;
22 cm.
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