Details

Subject(s)

• United States Navy Dept—Archives [Browse]
• American Colonization Society—History—Sources [Browse]
• Slave trade—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• African Americans—Colonization—Africa—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• United States. Navy Dept [Browse]
• United States. National Archives and Records Service [Browse]

Series

National Archives microfilm publications ; no. M-205 [More in this series]

Notes

Consists mainly of copies of letters sent by the Secretary of the Navy to agents of the United States stationed on the northwest coast of Africa for the purpose of receiving blacks freed by the capture of slave ships, and letters and reports received by the Secretary of the Navy from these agents.

OCLC

2772366

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