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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Main Author: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Corporate Authors: American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, Kentucky Colonization Society
Contributors: Jones, Joseph., Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858., Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878., Sigourney, L. H. 1791-1865., Johnson, Lawrence, 1801-1860. (Stereotyper), Ashmun, J. 1794-1828. (Cartographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Philadelphia] : For sale by Carey & Hart (Stereotyped by L. Johnson.), 1834.
Edition:9th ed.
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