LIBERIAN COLONIZATION NOTES Pubblico Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 40, October 6, 2002, Article 4
LIBERIAN COLONIZATION NOTES
The same issue of Paper Money includes an article on
currency with an interesting connection to the U.S. Jim L.
Watson's article, "Scrip Recalls 'Maryland in Liberia'
Movement" pictures five unissued, reprinted notes
originally issued in November 1837 for circulation in an
African colony.Since we've been discussing microfilms as useful troves of
information, it was an interesting coincidence that a web
search turned up the following reference to the Papers of
the Maryland State Colonization Society (1817-1902),
available for purchase on microfilm. (See
http://www.scholarly.com/mfdetail.asp?S1859)"The Maryland State Colonization Society (MSCS) was
formed in 1817 as an auxiliary of the American Colonization
Society. The goal of these groups was to eradicate slavery in
America by inducing free blacks to return to Africa. The
MSCS found the black colony "Maryland in Liberia" on the
West African coast in 1834, which was incorporated into
the Republic of Liberia in 1857. Active colonization efforts
ended after the Civil War, and the MSCS finally disbanded
in 1902.The Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society
includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, records
of manumission and emigration, reports of colonial agents,
pamphlets and books on the colonization movement, copies
of the Maryland Colonization Journal (Baltimore, 1835?
1861), the Liberia Herald (Monrovia, 1842?1857), and
census records of Maryland in Liberia."Some other interesting web sites:
http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/acs.htmhttp://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar64.html
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