The Republic of Liberia . hI Im 1-^^ A^^^H^^g^^^ -rr - . ?*. A STKEl/r AT CAlK PALMAS. CHAPTER II HISTORY: THE EARLY IMMIGRANTS When, during the first few years of the nineteenthcentury, America at length resolved to put an end tothe hideous traffic in slaves and slavery which forcenturies had lain like a bhght upon the coast lands ofWest Africa, and the manumission in the United Statesof America of large numbers of these unfortunatesgradually became an accomplished fact, an extremelyawkward situation arose, namely, what was to be donewith them. As an element in the polity of the countrythey w
The Republic of Liberia . hI Im 1-^^ A^^^H^^g^^^ -rr - . ?*. A STKEl/r AT CAlK PALMAS. CHAPTER II HISTORY: THE EARLY IMMIGRANTS When, during the first few years of the nineteenthcentury, America at length resolved to put an end tothe hideous traffic in slaves and slavery which forcenturies had lain like a bhght upon the coast lands ofWest Africa, and the manumission in the United Statesof America of large numbers of these unfortunatesgradually became an accomplished fact, an extremelyawkward situation arose, namely, what was to be donewith them. As an element in the polity of the countrythey were felt to be distinctly unwelcome, and as theirranks were increased almost daily by the death orvoluntary action of slave-owners, the question of thedisposal of the large numbers of freed slaves thus letloose in the land became one to which for a long timeno satisfactory answer was forthcoming. At length, after the consideration and rejection ofnumerous proposals, a suggestion made by a certainDr. Fothergill, a member of the Society of Friends inEngland,
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