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Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Missions: Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church Location. The mission supported by the Presbyterian Board, under the care of the Presbytery of Western Africa, lies in the republic of Liberia, whose limits are 7 25' N. lat. down to 4 44' N. lat., including a little over five hundred miles of sea-coast, with an average width in the interior of fifty, miles. This interior extension may be increased, the territory of native princes which has been ceded to the republic not leaving very definite eastern limits. Early History. The first settlement on that coast was January 7, 1821, by eighty-nine free blacks who sailed from New York in 1820. In April, 1822, a colony of manumitted slaves from the United States was planted by the American Colonization Society, which for twenty-five years retained the supervision of them, under Governors Ashmun, Pinney and others, until the establishment of the republic, with its capital at Monrovia, on July 26, 1847. Various missionary boards, representing all the evangelical Christian churches, followed with their agents those who had gone out as colonist. People And Government. The Government is modeled on that of the United States, having a President with his Cabinet, a Senate and a House of Representatives. There is no established church, and all faith are equally tolerated. In 1890 the population comprises about 20,000 civilized negroes, chiefly of American origin, and 1,050,000 half-wild native, who are gradually coming under the influence of civilization. The most interesting tribes are the Veys, Bassos, Kroos and Mandingoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."