Title: The origin and purpose of African colonization
Subtitle: Being the annual discourse delivered at the sixty-sixth anniversary of the American Colonization Society, held in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday, January 14, 1883
Description: Blyden was President of Liberia College in Monrovia, Liberia. He outlines the reasons for African colonization by American blacks; founding and purpose of the American Colonization Society; creation of the Colony of Liberia and the current state of the colony--its geographic extent, commerce, and Liberia College. Blyden appeals for more African American colonizers.
Subjects: African Americans, Colonization