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Circular addressed to the colored brethren and friends in America
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...white American Colonization Society agent, Jehudi Ashmun. These confrontations had their origins in Ashmun's efforts to direct and control the colony...fundamentally from competition between Cary and Ashmun. Both had gone to Liberia to advance their...
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Center Church plans historic celebration
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 2/15/2008; ; 612 words
; ...that will end back at the church for worship at 3 p.m. The walk will bring participants by the resting place of Jehudi Ashmun, the first Colonial Agent of the American Society, for whom a major street in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia...
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Liberian scenario: Is it for democracy?, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh); 12/10/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...American slaves in Africa and in 1816 American colonization society was founded there. 1st Americo- Liberian led by Jehudi Ashmun began the settlement. In 1824 an American agent for the society Ralph Randolph Gurly named the new colony Liberia...
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS; A DUKE'S DOUBLE LIFE?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/2/2003; 700+ words
; ...and some local slave traders who made several raids, but the colony was established as Liberia in 1823. In 1826, Jehudi Ashmun, regarded as the true founder of Liberia and its first important leader, raided a large Spanish- owned building...
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Jehudi Ashmun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jehudi Ashmun Jehudi Ashmun (1794-1828) was the white American governor of Liberia Colony, West Africa, whose leadership enabled the early settlement at Monrovia to survive armed attacks from local Africans. Jehudi Ashmun was born on a farm...
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American Colonization Society
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...an agent, Eli Ayres, and Lt. R. F. Stockton of the U.S. Navy purchased land in Africa, where subsequently Jehudi Ashmun and Ralph R. Gurley laid the foundations of Liberia . The colonization movement came under the bitter attack of the...
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