Liberia: Or the Early History & Signal Preservation of the American Colony of Free Negroes on the Coast of Africa
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1833 Excerpt: ... provisions necessary for the consumption of the settlers in the present season could be drawn from the produce of the soil. Vessels seldom appear on the coasts between the months of May and N...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1833 Excerpt: ... provisions necessary for the consumption of the settlers in the present season could be drawn from the produce of the soil. Vessels seldom appear on the coasts between the months of May and November; and as the event proved, nothing in that period could be purchased from abroad. The most economical management of the stores on hand could not make them last more than half the season of the rains, and the natives, treacherously waiting the departure of Boatswain into the interior, and the disappearance of the little armed schooner belonging to the colony, on her voyage for the United States, replaced themselves in an attitude of incipient hostility, and prohibited the conveyance of supplies to the colony out of the surrounding country. To add, if possible, to the dark and desperate prospects of the settlers, the stores in their possession, had been reported to the managers at home, as nearly equal to a twelvemonth's consumption. But the eye of God was upon them; his providence was again interposed for their preservation. The government of the United States having a number of Africans in the custody of the marshal of Georgia, who had been liberated a few months previously from the hold of a slave vessel, by the operation of the benevolent law of 1813, determined, at this time, on the transportation of them to their native country. A vessel was chartered for this service in Baltimore, on board of which thirty-seven persons, under the patronage of the Colonization Society, were also embarked, with a moderate supply of stores, for the settlement. This expedition was committed to the direction of Mr. J. Ashmun, who, in the expectation of aiding a. good work, to which much of his time and labour had been already devoted in the United States, had consented to accept ...
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