Letters on the Colonization Society and on its probable results : addressed to the Hon[orable] C.F. Mercer / by M. Carey.
| Author/creator | Carey, Mathew |
| Other author | Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858. |
| Other author | Jones, Joseph. |
| Other author | Kentucky Colonization Society. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 9th ed. / to which is prefixed [The Liberian Colony] 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. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : For sale by Carey & Hart, 1834 (Stereotyped by L. Johnson) |
| Description | 4, 32, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Running title | Letters on the American Colonization Society |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | Slavery. |
| Local note | 2012AH28500. |
| General note | "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." |
| General note | Report of Jones, with caption "The Liberian colony" (4 p.) precedes p. [1]. |
| General note | Two columns to the page. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 10870. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Other title | Liberian colony. |
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