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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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[Philadelphia] :
For sale by Carey & Hart (Stereotyped by L. Johnson.),
1834.
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| Edition: | 9th ed. |
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Printed in two columns. "Section of a slave ship. From Walsh's Notes of Brazil."--plate [1]. "Map of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa from a ms. map by the late Mr. Ashmun." and "Plan of the town of Monrovia."--plate [2]. "The Liberian colony. From the Kentucky commonwealth."--4 p., 1st count. Poems "The African chief enslaved" by William Cullen Bryant and "Death of Ashmun" and "Liberia" by Lydia H. Sigourney, p. 32. Report by Jones, with caption "The Liberian colony" (4 p.) precedes p. [i]. |
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4, iv, [1], 6-32 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 ill., 2 maps ; 22 cm. |