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HISTORY OF LIBERIA. I. INTRODUCTION. There are but few more interesting spots in Africa than the little corner of the west coast occupied by the Republic of Liberia. It has been the scene of a series of ~xperiments absolutely unique in history-experiments from which we are to derive the knowledge upo~ which we must rely in the solutioll of the weighty problems connected with the development of a dark continent, and with the civilization of hundreds of millions of the human race. ~fany questions have arisen which have not been settled to our complete satisfaction. Is the Negro capable of receiving and maintaining a superimposed civilization? Fronde dec]ares that" the worst enemies of the blacks are those who persist in pressing upon them an equality which nature has denied them. They may attain it in time if they are fairly treated, but they can attain it only on condition of going through the discipline and experience of hundreds of years, through which the white rac

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CONTENTS; PAOE,; J I'N"TRODUCTION €€€€€€ , €€€€€€€€€€€€€€ 111111 €€€€€€€€€€€€€ 4 9; II THE COLONIZATIO~ IDEA 14; III THE COLONIZATION ~fOVEMENT " 20; IV ~fARYLAND IN LIBERrA 31; V THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 37; VL TJlE HrsToRTc ::;WNJFrCANCE OF COLONIZATION 52; 1 As a Southern Movement toward Emancipation 52; 2 As a Check to the Slave Trade 55; 3 As a Step toward the Civilization of Africa 56; 4 As a ltlissionary Effort 58; 5 As a Refuge to the Negro from the Pressure of Increasing; Competition in America 59; AUTIIORITl:E:::Si € , €€€€€ t ,f €€€€€€€€€ €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€ ti3

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