The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 40, October 6, 2002, Article 4

LIBERIAN COLONIZATION NOTES

  The same issue of Paper Money includes an article on
  currency with an interesting connection to the U.S. Jim L.
  Watson's article, "Scrip Recalls 'Maryland in Liberia'
  Movement"  pictures five unissued, reprinted notes
  originally issued in November 1837 for circulation in an
  African colony.

  Since we've been discussing microfilms as useful troves of
  information, it was an interesting coincidence that a web
  search turned up the following reference to the Papers of
  the Maryland State Colonization Society (1817-1902),
  available for purchase on microfilm.  (See
  http://www.scholarly.com/mfdetail.asp?S1859)

  "The Maryland State Colonization Society (MSCS) was
  formed in 1817 as an auxiliary of the American Colonization
  Society. The goal of these groups was to eradicate slavery in
  America by inducing free blacks to return to Africa.  The
  MSCS found the black colony "Maryland in Liberia" on the
  West African coast in 1834, which was incorporated into
  the Republic of Liberia in 1857. Active colonization efforts
  ended after the Civil War, and the MSCS finally disbanded
  in 1902.

  The Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society
  includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, records
  of manumission and emigration, reports of colonial agents,
  pamphlets and books on the colonization movement, copies
  of the Maryland Colonization Journal (Baltimore, 1835?
  1861),  the Liberia Herald (Monrovia, 1842?1857), and
  census records of Maryland in Liberia."

  Some other interesting web sites:
  http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/acs.htm

  http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/lembrich/seminar64.html

  http://www.famousamericans.net/benjaminhenrylatrobe/

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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