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., Ashmun, J. 1794-1828.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Philadelphia] : For sale by Carey & Hart, Philadelphia price five dollars per hundred. March 20, 1835. (Stereotyped by L. Johnson.), [1835]
Edition:Tenth ed. 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.
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