he American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, p. 340.

[149] This trip was to influence the free people of color in the
United States to emigrate to Liberia. Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p.
151.

[150] Gurley, _op. cit._, pp. 340f.

[151] Peck, _op. cit._, p. 554.

[152] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VI, p. 216.

[153] Gurley, _Life of Jehudi Ashmun_, p. 157.

[154] _Ibid._, _op. cit._, p. 261.

[155] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. IX, pp. 212f.; Peck, _op.
cit._, p. 442.

[156] _The American Missionary Register_, Vol. VI, p. 142.

[157] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VI, p. 216.

[158] _The Liberia Herald_ ran for three issues. Then the printer, Mr.
Charles L. Force, died. _Ibid._, pp. 214ff.

[159] _Ibid._

[160] Rippon, _op. cit._, Vol. I, pp. 334, 482; Alexander, _op. cit._,
p. 41; Crooks, _A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone_, p. 36.

[161] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 66.

[162] _Ibid._, p. 56.

[163] _Ibid._, p. 131.

[164] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 132.

[165] _Ibid._

[166] Alexander, _op. cit._, p. 247.

[167] Gurley, _op. cit._, appendix, p. 126.

[168] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VI, p. 216.

[169] _History of African Colonization_, p. 225.

[170] Cf. Adams, _The Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery in America_, p.
92; Cromwell, _The Early Negro Convention Movement_, pp. 3-5.

[171] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VIII, pp. 53f.

[172] Cf. _Letters and Addresses of Lott Cary_.

[173] Cf. especially Gurley, _Life of Jehudi Ashmun_, appendix, pp.
153, 157. In speaking of going to Grand Cape Mount, Mr. Cary says, "I
should have went up last year ... we may anticipate a middling severe
struggle from the Mandingo priests who have been for years propagating
their system of religion among that nation. They are a kind of
Mahometan Jews--they are very skilful in the Old Testament...." _The
American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VII, p. 305. Moreover, there is no
known evidence that any other of the colonists could have written so
well.

[174] Compare the Address of the Citizens of Monrovia to the free
colored people of the United States with the account given in Gurley,
_Life of Jehudi Ashmun_, pp. 136-138.

[175] _The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. VIII, p. 203.

[176] $1 was the annual membership fee; 45 names were enrolled and the
money paid. $7.25 was collected at the door. Ashmun contributed $5
extra. _The American Baptist Magazine_,