Important intelligence from Liberia

Item Information

• Description
  Letter from North Carolinian Louis Sheridan to New York abolitionist Lewis Tappan, criticizing colonization societies' schemes to send freed slaves to Africa. Describes deplorable conditions Sheridan has experienced in Liberia. Tappan is sharing Sheridan's letter with the public to raise awareness of the situation. Nov. 24, 1838.

• Item ID
  bdsny11282
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Liberia
  New York (State)
  North Carolina
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Important intelligence from Liberia
• Extent
  4 scans
• Date
  1838-11-24
• Folder
  NY1
• Type
  Text
  circular letters
• Subject
  African Americans--History
  Slavery

• Copyright & Usage
  None