Letters on /the Colonization Society : with a view of 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. Fenton Mercer, M.H.R.U.S

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Main Author: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Corporate Author: American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States
Contributors: Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858., Young, Ashmun, J. 1794-1828
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, : May 29, 1832. Young, printer., [1832]
Edition:3rd ed., enl. and improved. [Fifteen lines from Cresson].
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