biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1794–1828)
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| biography:
| Colonial agent, writer, and philanthropist, born in Champlain, New York, USA. He studied at the University of Vermont (1816), and entered the Congregational ministry, becoming involved in various educational and journalistic enterprises. In 1822 he sailed from Baltimore to Liberia with a boatload of returning African-American slaves. There he held off an attack by native chiefs and survived the fever that killed his wife. He stayed on and was appointed agent to the American Colonization Society (1824–8), writing The History of the American Colony in Liberia from December 1821 to 1823. |
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