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Letters on the Colonization Society and 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.

Title: Letters on the Colonization Society and 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. / by M. Carey.
Author: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Publication: Philadelphia : Stereotyped by L. Johnson, June 19, 1832.

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Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.		Text	Use in library	*C p.v. 767	Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315
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Description

iv, [1], 6-32 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Alternative Title

Map of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa.
Plan of the town of Monrovia.

Subjects

Maps
Liberia
Bookplates (Provenance)
Ink stamps (Provenance)
Maps > Liberia > Monrovia > 1830-1840
Maps > Liberia > 1830-1840
Liberia > Monrovia
Africa
American Colonization Society
Monrovia (Liberia) > Maps
Liberia > Maps
African Americans > Colonization > Africa

Genre/Form

Maps.
Maps – Liberia – 1830-1840.
Maps – Liberia – Monrovia – 1830-1840.
Ink stamps (Provenance)
Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

Maps: Map of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa, from a ms. map by the late Mr. Ashmun -- Plan of the town of Monrovia.

Indexed In (note)

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available in digital form; Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the electronic resource.

Source (note)

Ivers J. Austin;

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.8C-C (Carey, M. Letters on the Colonization Society. 4th ed.)

LCCN

11008695

OCLC

2927046

Author

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, author.

Title

Letters on the Colonization Society and 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. / by M. Carey.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Stereotyped by L. Johnson, June 19, 1832.

Edition

Fourth edition, greatly enlarged and improved. [Thirteen lines from Cresson].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available in digital form; Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the electronic resource.

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 2, page 1214, column 2, row 1

Local Note

The copy in the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division of the Schomburg Center is a pre-1926 gift transferred to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It bears an NYPL bookplate of the: "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection, and an NYPL perforated stamp. It was a duplicate from the 42nd Street Library & it contains ink stamps from the former: "Gansevoort-Lansing Collection" & "The New York Public Library: Duplicate Hold" on the bottom of the original cover; library bound in brown cloth over boards with original yellow soft printed paper wrappers and gilt spine title.

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the electronic resource.

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