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- GLC#
- GLC00267.053
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- March 22, 1844
- Author/Creator
- Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization...
- Title
- Memorial of the society of the District of Columbia for the colonization and civilization of Africa, praying ...
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
28th Congress, 1st session, Senate document no. 218. Calls upon the government for "The establishment of a commercial agency at the colony of Liberia, and asking an appropriation to forward the objects of said society, and for the benefit of said colony." Wants this commercial agency to enter into an agreement with "African chiefs for the overthrow of the slave trade...." Published by Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa.
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