Reflections on the causes that led to the formation of the Colonization Society, with a view of its probable results : under the following heads, the increase of the coloured population, the origin of the Colonization Society, the manumission of slaves in this country, the declarations of legislatures and other assembled bodies, in favour of the society, the situation of the colonists at Monrovia and other towns, moral and religious character of the settlers, the soil and climate of Liberia, its productions and commerce, the advantages to the free coloured population by emigration to Liberia, the character of the natives of Africa before the irruption of the barbarians, the effects of the colonization on the slave trade--with a slight sketch of that nefarious and accursed traffic / by M. Carey.