Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia records

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Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia records

1842-2011

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61483250

Records of the Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia, an organization whose mission was to build and maintain a college or university in Liberia, pertains to all facets of the Trustees' activites, 1842-1939, including founding and membership of the organization; obtaining donations for education in Liberia; and the founding, staffing, and maintainance of the facilities of Liberia College. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, addresses, resolutions, bills, deeds, and acts, account books, newspapers, clippings, menus and other printed ephemera, and bound publications. Correspondents include Liberian officials and countrymen; Liberia College presidents, faculty, and staff; officials and members of the American Colonization Society, New York Colonization Society, and other like-minded organizations; donors and supporters; financial institutions; and tradesmen, among many others. The records also include correspondence between founders Simon Greenleaf and Joseph Tracy, formerly of the Massachusetts Colonization Society, and the America Colonization Society discussing education in Liberia, prior to the founding of the Trustees of Donations in 1848; and long letters written by James L. Sibley on two trips to Africa as educational advisor, 1925-1929.

19 boxes, 15 cased vols., 1 oversize box, and 3 cartons.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7806525

Massachusetts Historical Society

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New-York Colonization Society

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Massachusetts Colonization Society

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American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia

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Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853

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Simon Greenleaf was born on December 5, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he attended the Latin School from 1790-1799. In 1801, he entered apprenticeship in Ezekiel Whitman's Gloucester, Maine law office. In June 1806, Cumberland County, Maine admitted Greenleaf to the Bar. On September 18, 1806, Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter to Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. From 1807-1817, Greenleaf practiced law in Gray, Maine before moving his law practi...

University of Liberia

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Tracy, Joseph, 1793?-1874

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