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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Item Description: 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].
Poems "The African chief enslaved" by William Cullen Bryant and "Death of Ashmun" and "Liberia" by Lydia H. Sigourney, p. 32.
Testimonials for the American Colonization Society, p. [4] of wrapper.
Dated: March 20, 1835.
Physical Description: iv, 32 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 ill., 2 maps ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication: United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.