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Spring, Gardiner (1785-1873) Memoirs of the Reverend Samuel J. Mills, late missionary to the South Western section of the United States...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.057 Author/Creator: Spring, Gardiner (1785-1873) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book Date: 1820 Pagination: 1 v. : 247 p. ; 24.5 x 16 cm.

Summary of Content: (title continues)... and agent of the American Colonization Society, deputed to explore the coast of Africa. By Spring as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York. Published by the New-York Evangelical Missionary Society.

Background Information: Mills explored the western coast of Africa for the American Colonization Society (founded 1817).

People: Spring, Gardiner, 1785-1873
Mills, Samuel John, 1783-1818

Historical Era: National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860

Subjects: ReligionAfricaAfrican American HistoryColonizationSlavery

Sub Era: The First Age of Reform

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