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.F. Mercer, M.H.R.U.S
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Date
01/01/1832
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africa
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Library of Congress
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