Annual Register_, Vol. I, pp. 478-481.
[82] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. V, pp. 241f.; _The American
Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, pp. 222f.
[83] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, pp. 222f.
[84] At the annual meeting of the American Colonization Society,
February, 1825, on motion of General Robert G. Harper, the settlement
was named Monrovia, in honor of the President of the United States.
Fox, _op. cit._, p. 71.
[85] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VI, pp. 244f. In the Report
of the Board of Managers of the General Missionary Convention, May,
1825, "Lott Cary ... states that hostilities ... of the natives had
ceased.... He asks for assistance to complete the work (on the
church); and the Board feel pleasure in recommending the case to the
hearts of all who are interested in the melioration of the condition
of the African Race." Ibid., Vol. V, p. 216.
[86] Cf. _Letters and Addresses of Lott Cary_.
[87] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 196.
[88] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 213.
[89] _Ibid._, p. 214.
[90] _Ibid._, p. 213.
[91] _Ibid._, _op. cit._, p. 182.
[92] The laws of the Society required every adult male to work two
days a week for the public good while receiving rations from the
public store. This rule was dispensed with providing each colonist
would cultivate his own land. _Ibid._, p. 186.
[93] _Ibid._, appendix, p. 150.
[94] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 187.
[95] _Ibid._, appendix, p. 150.
[96] Fox, _op. cit._, p. 72.
[97] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 150.
[98] _Ibid._, pp. 190ff.
[99] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 150.
[100] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. IV, p. 423.
[101] Hervey, _op. cit._, p. 204.
[102] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 203.
[103] Gurley, _op. cit._, p. 214; Hervey, _op. cit._, p. 204.
[104] _Ibid., op. cit._, p. 215; _ibid._, appendix, p. 150.
[105] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, p. 143.
[106] _Ibid._
[107] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 49.
[108] _Ibid._ p. 246.
[109] Gammell, _op. cit._, p. 247.
[110] _The Missionary Jubilee_, p. 215.
[111] The Veys inhabit this healthy country and are very intelligent.
They have a written language although no books. Peck, _op. cit._, p.
441.
[112] Warneck, _op. cit._, p. 189.
[113] Peck, _op. cit._, p. 441.
[114] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 30.
[115] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, p. 341.
[116] Cf. Jones, _The Religious Instruction
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