The African Slave Trade and Colonization

by James Mitchell

$1,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Indianapolis, Dec. 13, 1849. Circular, 10.625” x 8.125”. CONDITION: Very good, very light foxing. A rare printed letter evidently intended exclusively for political officials, urging them to use their influence to shift United States funding away from the suppression of the African slave trade and towards Liberian colonization efforts.

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