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Liberia
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Manuscripts
Collection MSS 58, I, 1, 7, #25 |
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Item/Collection
Note: The American Colonization Society championed the sending
of freed slaves to Liberia with their former owners paying
most of the expenses. In Elizabeth Cox Underwood's February
15, 1850 letter to her husband, she outlines arrangements
made for Davy and family to embark for Liberia. She also relates
that Sally (Davy's wife) did the following:
"A night or two before starting, she came in for me to
register hers & Davy's births & marriage, & the
ages of all their children, dead & alive, in the new Family
Bible. She also requested as a great favor a list of the ages
etc of yourself & family, on a slip of paper. She had
a cry & seemed to be really affected when she left, &
I could not help feeling sorry myself." |
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