1837 10 CENT MARYLAND STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY IN LIBERIA ~ AMERICAN SLAVERY

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1837 10 CENT MARYLAND STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY, LIBERIA, AFRICA ~ FREED AMERICAN SLAVES. Choice Crisp About Uncirculated. Single vertical center fold. (Pick # PS-112)
Issued at Baltimore, November 1837 for use in the Government Store at Harper, Maryland in Liberia. Harper was the main town of Maryland County, land obtained by the Maryland State Colonization Society to be populated by freed slaves who volunteered to go to live in Africa.
Pink paper. Central vignette of rooster. Back is blank as issued. On paper partially watermarked CRANE & CO. DALTON MASS.
The
Maryland State Colonization Society
was the Maryland branch of the American Colonization Society
, an organization founded in 1816 with the purpose of returning free blacks
to what many Southerners
considered greater freedom in Africa.
The ACS helped to found the colony of Liberia
in 1821–22, as a place for freedmen.
The Maryland State Colonization Society was responsible for founding the Republic of Maryland
in West Africa, a short lived independent state that in 1857 was annexed by Liberia.
. The goal of the society was "to be a remedy for slavery", such that "slavery would cease in the state by the full consent of those interested", but this end was never achieved, and it would take the outbreak of the Civil War
to bring slavery to an end in Maryland.