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1824 LIBERIA & SLAVERY. Seventh Annual Report on Slavery Colonization. Francis Scott Key, etc.

1824 LIBERIA & SLAVERY. Seventh Annual Report on Slavery Colonization. Francis Scott Key, etc.

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Contents include: A list of the officers of the Society [including Francis Scott Key], a full report of the addresses, etc., delivered at the Annual Meeting of 1824, a detailed report of the Society, and most fascinatingly, over 50 pages of reports of interactions with Liberian nationals, including crimes committed, confessions, etc. etc., An irreplaceable primary resource. 

[Slavery, Abolition, Liberia, Colonization Society]. The Seventh Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. With an Appendix. Plus a Single Sheet Prospectus for Publication of The Africa Repository. Washington. Printed by Davis and Force. 1824. 173 + 1.

Good condition, some foxing and handling, removed probably form a larger sammelband at some point. Text generally clean with associated use wear as shown, very weak or disbound between signatures. Sans map mentioned in some records.

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