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• Historical examination of the state of society in western Africa, as formed by paganism and Muhammedanism, slavery, the slave trade and piracy, and of the remedial influence of colonization and missions ([Boston] : Published by the Board of Managers, [1845], 1845), by Joseph Tracy, Randall K. Burkett, Theophilus Rogers Marvin, and Massachusetts Colonization Society. Board of Managers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Independent Republic of Liberia: Its Constitution and Declaration of Independence; Address of the Colonists to the Free People of Color in the United States, with Other Documents, Issued Chiefly For the Use of the Free People of Color (Philadelphia: W. F. Geddes, printer, 1848), by Liberia, contrib. by Simon Greenleaf and Pennsylvania Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa; With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization (Baltimore: Armstrong and Berry, 1837), by James B. Taylor, contrib. by John H. B. Latrobe (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The lone-star of Liberia; being the outcome of reflections on our own people. (E. Stock, 1892), by Frederick Alexander Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration to Liberia. ([American colonization society], 1883), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mind of the Negro as reflected in letters written during the crisis, 1800-1860 (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1926), by Carter Godwin Woodson, Frederick Douglass, and Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the secretary of state, communicating the report of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who was recently sent out by the government to obtain information in respect to Liberia. September 14, 1850. Read. September 16, 1850. Ordered to be printed. ([Washington, 1850), by United States Department of State and Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duty of a rising Christian state to contribute to the world's well-being and civilization, and the means by which it may perform the same : the annual oration before the Common Council and the citizens of Monrovia, Liberia--July 26, 1855, being the day of national independence (Reprinted by the Massachusetts Colonization Society, 1857), by Alexander Crummell, Massachusetts Colonization Society, and Monrovia (Liberia). Common Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the microfilm edition of the papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society; a collection of the Maryland Historical Society. (Rhistoric Publications, 1970), by Maryland State Colonization Society and Maryland Historical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings on the seas and shores of Africa. (J. W. Harrison, 1843), by David Francis Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia, or, The early history and signal preservation of the American colony of free Negroes on the coast of Africa : compiled from American documents (Waugh and Innes, 1831), by William Innes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and character of the Rev. Samuel Bacon, A.M. : late, an officer of marines in the United States' service: afterwards, attorney at law in the state of Pennsylvania: and subsequently, a minister of the Episcopal Church, and principal agent of the American government for persons librated from slave-ships, on the coast of Africa; where he terminated his life in the month of May, 1820 (Sold by the booksellers of the District of Columbia; Richmond; Petersburg; Norfolk; Baltimore; Philadelphia; New York; New Haven, and Boston. Jacob Gideon, Junior, Printer, 1822), by J. Ashmun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on the Colonization Society : with a view of its probable results, under the following heads: the origin of the society; increase of the coloured population; manumission of slaves in this country; declarations of legislatures, and other assembled bodies, in favour of the society; situation of the colonists at Monrovia and other towns ... Addressed to the Hon. Charles F. Mercer ... (Young, printer, 1832), by Mathew Carey and Charles Fenton Mercer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered at the state house, in Vandalia, on the subject of forming a state colonization society, auxiliary to the American Colonization Society. (Printed by James G. Edwards, 1831), by Cyrus Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse preached in the Center Church, in New Haven, August 27, 1828 at the funeral of Jehudi Ashmun, Esq. : colonial agent of the American colony of Liberia (Printed by H. Howe, 1828), by Leonard Bacon and Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examination of Mr. Thomas C. Brown, a free colored citizen of S. Carolina, as to the actual state of things in Liberia in the years 1833 and 1834, at the Chatham Street Chapel, May 9th & 10th, 1834. (S. W. Benedict & Co., Printers, 1834), by American Anti-Slavery Society, Joshua Coffin, Joshua Leavitt, and Thomas Cilavan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables showing the number of emigrants and recaptured Africans sent to the colony of Liberia by the government of the United States : also, the number of emigrants free born, number that purchased their freedom, number emancipated, &c. : together with a census of the colony, and a report of its commerce, &c. September, 1843. ([publisher not identified], 1845), by YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the clergy of all denominations, on colonization. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin. (Kraus Reprint Co., 1892), by Liberia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examination of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered at its December term, 1850 : concluding with an address to the free colored people, advising them to remove to Liberia (Truman & Spofford, publishers, 1852), by James Gillespie Birney and United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the Joint Select Committee to Whom Was Referred the Subject of African Colonization. (Osborn and Baldwin, 1852), by Connecticut. General Assembly. Joint Select Committee to Whom Was Referred the Subject of African Colonization (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examination of Mr. Thomas C. Brown : a free colored citizen of S. Carolina, as to the actual state of things in Liberia in the years 1833 and 1834 : at the Chatham Street Chapel, May 9th and 10th, 1834. (S. W. Benedict, Printers, 1834), by Thomas C. Brown, Joshua Leavitt, and American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circular. (New-York : New-York State Colonization Society, [1869?], 1869), by New-York State Colonization Society, Randall K. Burkett, and John Brooke Pinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English language in Liberia : the annual address before the citizens of Maryland County, Cape Palmas, Liberia--July 26, 1860 : being the day of national independence (New York : Bunce & Co., printers, 1861., 1861), by Alexander Crummell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Navy and Liberia: An Address before the American Colonization Society, January 18, 1876, by Robert Wilson Shufeldt (Gutenberg ebook)

• Liberia. ([American Colonization Society], 1892), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report on colonizing the free people of colour of the United States : February 11, 1817, read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. (s.n., 1817), by United States House of Representatives and United States. Congress 1816-1817) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour. (Printed by C. Crookes, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paul Cuffee, the black hero : a narrative founded on facts (Edinburgh : Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, [189-?], in the 1890s), by Anderson & Ferrier Oliphant and M'Farlane and Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Correspondence Relative to the Emigration to Hayti of the Free People of Colour in the United States, Together with the Instructions to the Agent Sent out by President Boyer (New York: Mahlon Day, 1824), by Loring Daniel Dewey and Jean Pierre Boyer (page images at Florida)
• The Negro problem solved; or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be; her curse and her cure. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Hollis Read (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of America and Africa; an essay showing our whole duty to the black man, consistent with our own safety and glory. (Negro History Press, 1960), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of America and Africa an essay showing our whole duty to the black man, consistent with our own safety and glory. (Printed for the author by H. Orr, 1854), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society. (Office of the Anti-slavery Reporter, 1834), by James Gillespie Birney (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration pronounced at Boston before the Colonization Society of Massachusetts, on the anniversary of American independence, July 4, 1833 (Lyceum Press, G.W. Light & Co., 1833), by Caleb Cushing and Massachusetts Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abolitionism exposed!. (D. Schneck, 1838), by William Willcocks Sleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonization and abolition. (Printed by J. D. Toy, 1852), by John H. B. Latrobe and New-York State Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Thornton and negro colonization (Worcester, Mass., 1921), by Gaillard Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the American Colonization Society : with minutes of the annual meeting and of the Board of Directors. (Washington [D.C.] : American Colonization Society, 1818-1910., 1818), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Negro nation (Chapman & Grimes Publishers, 1947), by Bernard S. Maloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal from the colored men of Philadelphia to the President of the United States ([Philadelphia, 1862), by J. C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our duty to the African race. An address delivered at Washington, D. C., January 21, 1851 (Printed by W.M. Innes, 1851), by Richard Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The African repository. (American Colonization Society, 1850), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of America and Africa; an essay showing our whole duty to the black man, consistent with our own safety and glory. (H. Orr, 1854), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• A solution of the race problem in the South. (An essay.) (Presses of Edwards & Broughton, 1898), by Enoch Spencer Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serious remonstrances, addressed to the citizens of the northern states, and their representatives: being an appeal to their natural feelings & common sense: consisting of speculations and animadversions, on the recent revival of the slave trade, in the American republic: with an investigation relative to the consequent evils resulting from that event. Interspersed with a simplified plan for colonizing the free Negroes of the northern, in conjunction with those who have, or may emigrate from the southern states, in a distant part of the national territory: considered as the only possible means of avoiding the deleterious evils attendant on slavery in a republic. (Printed and published by Thomas T. Stiles, No. 251, North Front-street, 1805), by Thomas Branagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's greatest problem: the Negro (F. A. Davis, 1915), by Robert W. Shufeldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to a member of the General Assembly of Virginia, on the subject of the late conspiracy of the slaves; with a proposal for their colonization. (Prnted by Bonsal & Niles, 1801) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization : with an appendix. (G.P.O., 1862), by United States. Congress. House Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization and Dumond Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Northman South : or, The race problem in America (J. Hill, 1890), by Joshua Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse, delivered at Montpelier, October 17, 1834, before the Vermont colonization society. (Knapp & Jewett, printers, 1834), by William Chauncey Fowler and Vermont Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Colonization Society. (T.R. Marvin & Son, 1840), by Massachusetts Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fourteenth annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States : with an appendix. (Printed by James C. Dunn, 1831), by American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States and American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief on emigration & colonization, and report in answer to a resolution of the Senate. (Polkinhorn & son, printers, 1865), by United States. Emigration Office, James Mitchell, and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. J.R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, on homesteads : for white men in the temperate zone-- homesteads for black men in the tropics-- white immigration to and black emigration from the United States-- a continental policy, embracing all climes and races, bringing freedom and homes to all, delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 11, 1862. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1862), by James R. Doolittle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of the Board of managers of the American colonization society to the public. ([Washington, 1819), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonization and abolition contrasted. (H. Hooker, 1839), by Calvin Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on colonization and emigration, made to the secretary of the interior (Gov't. Print. Off., 1862), by United States. Emigration Office, James Mitchell, and United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the physical, intellectual, and moral qualities of our colored population: with remarks on the subject of emancipation and colonization. (L. H. Young, 1834), by Ebenezer Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky colonization society. (American anti-slavery society, 1838), by James Gillespie Birney (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt to demonstrate the practicability of emancipating the slaves of the United States of North America (G. & C. Carvil, 1825), by James Kirke Paulding and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inducements to the colored people of the United States to emigrate to British Guiana (Printed for distribution, Kidder and Wright, 1840), by Edward Carbery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Francis P. Blair, jr., of Missouri, on the acquisition of Central America; delivered in the House of representatives, January 14, 1858. (Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1858), by Francis Preston Blair and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration pronounced at Boston before the Colonization society of Massachusetts, on the anniversary of American independence, July 4, 1833. (Lyceum press, G. W. Light & co., 1833), by Caleb Cushing and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Frank P. Blair, jr., of Missouri, on the acquisition of territory in Central and South America, to be colonized with free blacks, and held as a dependency by the United States. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858), by Frank P. Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The destiny of the races of this continent. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1859), by Frank P. Blair and Mass.) Mercantile Library Association (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abolitionism exposed! (D. Schneck, 1838), by William Willcocks Sleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Thornton and negro colonization (The Society, 1921), by Gaillard Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of American and Africa (Printed for the author by H. Orr, 1854), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on negro colonization. A plan for colonizing all the negroes in the United States on foreign territory. ([Alexandria? Va., 1888), by Samuel Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deportation and colonization, an attempted solution of the race problem (s.n., 1914), by Walter Lynwood Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eulogium upon Wilberforce; with a brief incidental review of the subject of colonization. Delivered, at the request of the Abolition Society, March 10, 1834. (Printed by T.K. Collins, 1834), by David Paul Brown and Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings, on the formation of the New-York State Colonization Society ... (Printed by Websters and Skinners., 1829), by New-York State Colonization Society (Founded 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some of the causes of national anxiety : an address delivered in the Centre Church in New Haven, July 4th, 1832 (s.n., 1832), by Benjamin Silliman (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered before the Middletown Colonization Society : at their annual meeting, July 4, 1834 (Printed by Joseph Longking, 1834), by D. D. Whedon and Middletown Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro problem solved (A. A. Constantine, 1864), by Hollis Read (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, November 29, 1859 ([Cincinnati?, 1859), by Frank P. Blair and Ohio) Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro problem solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be her curse and her cure (A. A. Constantine, 1864), by Hollis Read (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables showing the number of emigrants and recaptured Africans sent to the colony of Liberia by the government of the United States : also, the number of emigrants free born, number that purchased their freedom, number emancipated, &c. : together with a census of the colony, and a report of its commerce, &c. September, 1843. ([publisher not identified], 1845), by YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of America and Africa; an essay showing our whole duty to the black man, consistent with our own safety and glory. (H. Orr, 1854), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free blacks and slaves. Would immediate abolition be a blessing? A letter to the editor of the Anti-slavery advocate (London : A.H. Virtue & Co. ; Liverpool : Deighton & Laughton, 1853., 1853), by Henry Arthur Bright, Charles Eliot Norton, M'Corquodale & Co, Deighton & Laughton, and A.H. Virtue & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American colony in Liberia, from December 1821 to 1823 ... (Printed by Way & Gideon, 1826), by J. Ashmun and David Richardson Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of America and Africa : an essay showing our whole duty of the black man, consistent with our own safety and glory (Printed for the author by H. Orr, 1969), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual reports of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. (Negro Universities Press, 1818), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt to demonstrate the practicability of emancipating the slaves of the United States of North America, and of removing them from the country, without impairing the right of private property, or subjecting the nation to a tax. (Published by G. & C. Carvil [i.e. Carvill]., 1825), by New-England man (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Kentucky Colonization Society : together with an address delivered by John A. M'Clung, of Mason County. (the Society, 1848), by Kentucky Colonization Society and John A. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible defence of slavery. To which is added a faithful exposition of that system of pseudo philanthropy, or fanaticism, yclept modern abolitionism ... and proposing a plan of national colonization. (W.S. Brown, 1851), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (Negro Universities Press., 1818), by American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• White America ([s.n.], 1937), by Earnest Sevier Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America. Written in Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, Sept. 28th, 1829. (Boston : Published by David Walker, 1829., 1829), by David Walker and W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana, by Richard Hildreth and Edward Carbery (Gutenberg ebook)
• Abolitionism Exposed!: Proving the the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves Themselves, Destructive to This Nation, and Contrary to the Express Commands of God, by W. W. Sleigh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Early Negro Convention Movement: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9, by John Wesley Cromwell (Gutenberg ebook)

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