Item #41915 A DISCOURSE BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DELIVERED OCTOBER 24, 1834, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. BY J. R. TYSON, WITH A NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, AND OF THEIR FIRST EXPEDITION OF COLOURED EMIGRANTS TO FOUND A COLONY AT BASSE COVE. Job Tyson.
A DISCOURSE BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DELIVERED OCTOBER 24, 1834, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. BY J. R. TYSON, WITH A NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, AND OF THEIR FIRST EXPEDITION OF COLOURED EMIGRANTS TO FOUND A COLONY AT BASSE COVE.

A DISCOURSE BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DELIVERED OCTOBER 24, 1834, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. BY J. R. TYSON, WITH A NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, AND OF THEIR FIRST EXPEDITION OF COLOURED EMIGRANTS TO FOUND A COLONY AT BASSE COVE.

Philadelphia: Printed for the Society, 1834. 63, [1] pp. Disbound, remnants of wrapper in blank inner margin of title page. Else Very Good, with a clean text.

Tyson was a Philadelphia lawyer and Whig, and a prominent public citizen who spoke out on a number of contemporary issues. Believing that Negroes were inferior in "moral virtue," he nevertheless opposed Slavery and proposed voluntary African colonization as the solution to their presence in this country.
Much information is presented on the doings of the Colonization Society.
LCP 10520. Item #41915

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