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.

Author/creator Carey, Mathew
Other author Jones, Joseph.
Other author Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858.
Other author Kentucky Colonization Society.
Format Electronic
Edition10th ed.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : For sale by Carey & Hart, 1835 (Stereotyped by L. Johnson)
Descriptioniv, 32, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteTravel; Slavery.
Local note2012AH74900.
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 noteTwo columns to the page.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 10870.

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