Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The African Repositony, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 6: June, 1830
It should here, perhaps, be stated, that Mr. Devany, was born in South Carolina, a slave, the property of Langdon Cheves, Esq. Formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives; that after acquiring his freedom, he prac tised the trade ofa sail maker in the employment of Mr. Fortin, a man of colour well known in Philadelphia; that more than seven years ago, he embarked for Liberia; that, while employed for a few months by the Colo. Nial Agent, to navigate a small public Vessel to different parts ofthe coast, for the purpose of obtaining supplies for the early settlers at Monrovia, ho was enabled to acquire the sum of $200; that with this, he commenced trade, and from sales made on his own account and as consignee, of others, he has, in less than six years, amassed a property valued by him at from 15 to dollars. Mr. Devany states that his sales in a single year had amounted to dollars. The Brig Liberia in which he took passage with his family for Philadelphia, to visit his own and his wife's relatives, brought from the Colony on account of the owners a Cargo valu ed at dollars.
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