Letters on the Colonization Society
Subtitle: 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.
By: By M. Carey
Contributors: Jones, Joseph; Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858; Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878; Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865; Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865; Johnson, Lawrence, 1801-1860, stereotyper; Ashmun, J. (Jehudi), 1794-1828, cartographer; American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States; Kentucky Colonization Society
Edition: 9th 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.
Publisher: For sale by Carey & Hart (Stereotyped by L. Johnson.)
Published: 1834
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: African Americans; Colonization; Description and travel; American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States
Other titles: Liberian colony
Notes: 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].

"The Liberian colony. From the Kentucky commonwealth."--4 p., 1st count.

Poems "The African chief enslaved" by William Cullen Bryant and "Death of Ashmun" and "Liberia" by Lydia H. Sigourney, p. 32.

Burke Library copy: No. 12 in a bound volume of titles.

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