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Lott Carey

(Carey, Lott, 1780-1828)

Lott Cary

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Lott Cary (also in records as Lott Carey and Lott Gary) (1780 – November 10, 1828) was an African-American Baptist minister and lay physician who was a missionary leader in the founding of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa in the 1820s. He founded the first Baptist church in 1822, now known as Providence Baptist Church of Monrovia. He served as the colony's acting governor from August 1828 to his death in November that year. (From Wikipedia)

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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)
Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia; With An Appendix, Containing Extracts from His Journal and Other Writings; With a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary (Washington: James C. Dunn, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (multiple formats at archive.org)

6 additional books about Lott Carey in the extended shelves:

Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia. (Printed by J. C. Dunn, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia : with an appendix, containing extracts from his journal and other writings : with a brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Lott Cary (Leavitt, Lord, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia : with an appendix containing extracts from his journal and other writings, with a brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Lott Cary (James C. Dunn, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia with an appendix, containing extracts from his journal and other writings ; with a brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Lott Cary (Printed by J. C. Dunn, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia. With an appendix, containing extracts from his journal and other writings; with a brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Lott Cary. (Robinson & Franklin, 1839), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
Biography of Elder Lott Cary, late missionary to Africa (Armstrong & Berry, 1837), by James B. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

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