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Primary Sources: Slavery & Abolition: Colonization

primary sources related to slavery and efforts to end slavery

Online Sources: Colinization

African Americans Colonization in HathiTrust
African Americans -- Colonization Africa in the Internet Archive
The African Repository
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vols. 1-68
Colonization. By Rev. O. B. Frothingham.
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From the Library of Congress From Slavery to Freedom collection
A few facts respecting the American Colonization Society and the colony at Liberia for gratuitous distribution
American Colonization Society.
African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress
An inquiry into the merits of the American Colonization Society
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and a reply to the charges brought against it. With an account of the British African Colonization Society. By Thomas Hodgkin ...
Library of Congress From Slavery to Freedom collection
Liberian Letters
Reflections on the causes that led to the formation of the colonization society
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From the Library of Congress From Slavery to Freedom collection
Works by The American Colonization Society in HathiTrust
Works by The American Colonization Society in the Internet Archive
Works by the New-York state Colonization Society in Internet Archive

Book Sources: Colonization

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Thoughts on African Colonization (ebook) by William Lloyd Garrison
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Thoughts on African Colonization (print) by William Lloyd Garrison
Call Number: E448.G242 T5
The Mind of the Negro as reflected in Letters written during the Crisis, 1800-1860 by Carter G. Woodson
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Includes letters from Frederick Douglass.
A few facts respecting the American colonization society, and the colony at Liberia by American Colonization Society
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
A sermon delivered at Springfield, Mass. (July 4, 1827) by Samuel Osgood
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
before the Colonization Society of Hampden County, July 4, 1827
Condition of the American colored population, and of the colony at Liberia by American Colonization Society
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family by Randall M. Miller (Editor)
Call Number: E444 .D42 1990
ISBN: 0820312304
Examination of Mr. Thomas C. Brown by American Anti-Slavery Society.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
a free colored citizen of S. Carolina, as to the actual state of things in Liberia in the years 1833 and 1834, at the Chatham Street Chapel, May 9th & 10th, 1834.
Information about going to Liberia by American Colonization Society
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Liberia
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Vols. 1-34
The African Repository (Vols. 1-4; 7-20; 27-68)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The African Repository (Vols. 4-6; 9)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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