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Title Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870 American Colonization Society collection /
Full text http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/collgmd.gm000003
Date 1998
Date related [1998]
Author(s) American Colonization Society.; Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Abstract This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to be the black American explorer Benjamin Anderson. - Title from Web page (viewed on May 2, 2006). - Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress. - Text (HTML) and digital images.
Subject(s) Liberia--Maps.; Liberia--History.
Coverage Liberia
Language eng
Publisher Washington, DC: Library of Congress
Type of publication image; map; cartographic
Repository Washington - Library of Congress
Added to C-A: 2008-12-22;03:37:46