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Abstract of a journal of E. Bacon, assistant agent of the United States, to Africa : with an appendix, containing extracts from proceedings of the Church Missionary Society in England, for the years 1819-20 : to which is prefixed An abstract of the journal, of the Rev. J.B. Cates, one of the missionaries from Sierra Leone to Grand Bassa : in an overland journey, performed in company with several natives, in the months of February, March, and April, 1819 : the whole showing the successful exertions of the British and American governments in repressing the slave trade.

Title: Abstract of a journal of E. Bacon, assistant agent of the United States, to Africa : with an appendix, containing extracts from proceedings of the Church Missionary Society in England, for the years 1819-20 : to which is prefixed An abstract of the journal, of the Rev. J.B. Cates, one of the missionaries from Sierra Leone to Grand Bassa : in an overland journey, performed in company with several natives, in the months of February, March, and April, 1819 : the whole showing the successful exertions of the British and American governments in repressing the slave trade.
Author: Bacon, Ephraim.
Publication: Philadelphia : Published by S. Potter, & Co. no. 87, Chesnut Street. D. Dickinson, printer, corner of Decatur and Market Streets, 1821.

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96 p.; 21 cm.

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Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Note

In printed paper wrappers, with a copyright statement on verso of upper wrapper.
"Price fifty cents."--recto of upper wrapper.
Included in Bacon's expedition were 2 agents of the American Colonization Society.
Signatures: [1]⁴ 2-12⁴.

Indexed In (note)

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829

Provenance (note)

inscribed: in ink on title page "Jas. D. Chamberlaine" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Preface -- Abstract, &c. -- Appendix: An extract from the Royal Gazette, published at Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April 21st, 1821 ; An abstract of proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for west Africa, published in London, 1819-1820 ; Regent's Town ; An abstract of the journal of the Rev. J.B. Cates, one of the missionaries from Sierra Leone to Grand Bassa ; At Grand Bassa ; On his return, Mr. Cates addressed a letter to the Secretary, dated April the 19th, from which the Committee will extract a few passages -- Appendix: Researches & improvements in Africa. Extracts from the Royal Gazette, published in Freetown, Sierra Leone ... Intelligence from the expedition to Teemboo, under Mr. O'Beirne ; Accounts of the English colony in South Africa ; Slave trade on the windward coast ; Account of the Krew (or Kroo) men ; Miscellanies; Remarks.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.66-B (Bacon, E. Abstract of a journal of E. Bacon. 1821)

LCCN

18004078

OCLC

5754462

Author

Bacon, Ephraim.

Title

Abstract of a journal of E. Bacon, assistant agent of the United States, to Africa : with an appendix, containing extracts from proceedings of the Church Missionary Society in England, for the years 1819-20 : to which is prefixed An abstract of the journal, of the Rev. J.B. Cates, one of the missionaries from Sierra Leone to Grand Bassa : in an overland journey, performed in company with several natives, in the months of February, March, and April, 1819 : the whole showing the successful exertions of the British and American governments in repressing the slave trade.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Published by S. Potter, & Co. no. 87, Chesnut Street. D. Dickinson, printer, corner of Decatur and Market Streets, 1821.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 753

Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 4517

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.66-B (accession no. B992014) inscribed: in ink on title page "Jas. D. Chamberlaine" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

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Cates, J. B., -1819.

Church Missionary Society.

American Colonization Society.

S. Potter & Co., publisher.

Dickinson, David, 1777 or 1778-1848, printer.

Chamberlaine, James D., former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.66-B (Bacon, E. Abstract of a journal of E. Bacon. 1821)

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