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, 1760-1839 |
| Other author/creator | Jones, Joseph. |
| Other author/creator | Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858. |
| Other author/creator | Kentucky Colonization Society. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | 10th ed. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : For sale by Carey & Hart, 1835 (Stereotyped by L. Johnson) |
| Description | iv, 32, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
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| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | Travel; Slavery. |
| Local note | 2012AH74900. |
| Local note | Travel; Slavery. |
| Local note | 2012AH74900. |
| 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 note | Two columns to the page. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 10870. |
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