Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seventy-Second Annual Report of the American Colonization Society, With the Minutes of the Annual Meeting and of the Board of Directors: January 13, 15 and 16, 1889
Emigration to Liberia every year under the auspices of the American Colonization Society has been uninterrupted for the past sixty-eight years. Those now reported make the number sent since the civil war to be and a total from the beginning of exclusive of recaptured Africans which it induced and enabled the Government of the United States to settle in Liberia, making a grand total of persons to whom the Society has given homes in Africa.
Some of the emigrants lately sent to Cape Palmas have removed to and settled at Arthington and elsewhere on the St. Paul's river; most of those landed January 23d, at Cape Mount, have taken posses sion of their own houses and are reaping crops raised on their own lands. And commendable progress has been made by the company that reached Sinoe, July 19.
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