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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 33



17. Liberia, Bulletin no. 6 (Washington, DC: Judd & Detweiler for the American Colonization Society, February 1895). (76 p.)


Report concerning the colonization of African Americans in Liberia. A photograph of General Roger A. Sherman, Secretary of War and of the Navy for the Republic of Liberia, serves as the frontispiece. A biographical sketch follows. Gen. Sherman was born a slave in Savannah, Georgia, and emigrated to Liberia with his parents in 1853 when he was fifteen years old.