Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 2: January, 1845
The natives, notwithstanding the evils which the slave trade in?icted upon them, were infatuated with it. In 1821, the agents of the Coloniza tion Society attempted to purchase a tract for their first settlement at Grand Bassa. The only Obstacle was, the refusal of the people to make any Con cession towards an abandonment of that traffic. In December of that year, a contract with that indispensable condition was made for Cape Mesurado. The first colonists took possession, January 7, 1822. In November of the same year, and again in December, the natives attacked the Colony in great numbers, and with an obstinate determination to exterminate the settlers and renew the trade at that accustomed spot. In April and May, 1823, Mr. Ashmun, governor of the Colony, went on business along the coast about 150 miles, to Settra Kroo. One century ago, he remarks, a great part of this line of coast was populous, cleared of trees, and under cultiva tion. It is now covered with a dense and almost continuous forest. This is almost wholly a second growth; commonly distinguished from the origi nal by the profusion of brambles and brushwood, which abounds amongst the larger trees, and renders the woods entirely impervious, even to the natives, until paths are opened by the bill-hook.
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