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Subject(s)

• Russwurm, John Brown, 1799-1851 [Browse]
• African American intellectuals—Biography [Browse]
• Pan-Africanism—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• African Americans—Colonization—Liberia—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Liberia—History—To 1847—Sources [Browse]

Summary note

"If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I principally court.". "Sensible then, as all are of the disadvantages under which we at present labour, can any consider it a mark of folly, for us to cast our eyes upon some other portion of the globe where all these inconveniences are removed where the Man of Colour freed from the fetters and prejudice, and degradation, under which he labours in this land, may walk forth in all the majesty of his c.

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ISBN

• 9780814743720 (electronic bk.)
• 0814743722 (electronic bk.)

OCLC

779828129

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