Constitution of the [blank] Colonization Society [form for local Ohio chapters]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05334 Author/Creator: Place Written: [Columbus?] Type: Broadside Date: 1838 ca. Pagination: 1 p. 32.5 x 19.7 cm Order a Copy
Blank form for local auxiliaries of the Ohio State Colonization Society: "Article I. This Society shall be called [blank] Colonization Society, and shall be auxiliary to the Ohio State Colonization Society. Article II. The object to which its views shall be exclusively directed, is the Colonization, on the Coast of Africa, with their own consent, of the free people of color of the United States...."
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