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[Letter, Signed by William McClain as Secretary of the American Colonization Society, to Isaac Settle, Regarding Fundraising for Liberian Land Purchases and African-American Emigration]

[Letter, Signed by William McClain as Secretary of the American Colonization Society, to Isaac Settle, Regarding Fundraising for Liberian Land Purchases and African-American Emigration] by [American Colonization Society]. McLain, William

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[Letter, Signed by William McClain as Secretary of the American Colonization Society, to Isaac Settle, Regarding Fundraising for Liberian Land Purchases and African-American Emigration]
Author
[American Colonization Society]. McLain, William
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Very good plus.
Description
Colonization Rooms," Washington, D.C.: August 29, 1844. Very good plus.. [2]pp., with integral blank addressed on last page. Folio. Original mailing folds, light toning along one rear fold. An informative fundraising letter for Liberian land purchases and African-American emigration on behalf of the American Colonization Society and the African Repository, written in a secretarial hand and signed by the organization's head, William McLain. The letter is addressed to Isaac Settle of Berne, New York, whom the content of the letter implies is the head of a church. William McLain served as the long-time Secretary of the American Colonization Society and was instrumental in its drive to send manumitted African Americans to the Colony of Liberia on the western African coast. This particular letter mentions the African Repository, the official publication of the American Colonization Society, and seeks to raise funds for the purchase of further territory in Africa and for the expense of transporting the formerly enslaved. The letter reads in part: "I have taken the liberty of sending you the accompanying number of the Af. Repository and would respectfully call your attention to its contents and to the great objects which we are endeavoring to accomplish by its general circulation. The prospects of our Colony are most encouraging. Could we have the means to purchase the remaining points of Territory lying within our limits there would be nothing to damp our hopes. There are hundreds of humane masters who are anxious to liberate their Slaves and only waiting for the Society to send them to the Colony. We are obliged to refuse many urgent applications from Negroes who have the privilege of going but whom we have not the means to send. To spread before the country these facts is the object of the Repository.... The members of your Church are nearly all I believe friends of this Society and many of them are liberal Contributors to its funds. We have at present very few agents engaged in collecting funds: and we therefore depend mainly on the pastors of Churches and on applications made in this and similar ways to individuals. We should be happy to have you become a Subscriber to the Repository and to you among the Contributors to the funds of the Society.

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