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Mount Vaughan: Scite of Protest[an]t. Episcopal Mission, Cape Palmos, West Africa

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View of the lush grounds of the mission begun in the black emigrant colony of Liberia in 1835 to educate and spread the gospel in Africa. Depicts the "mission houses," "school house," houses of a "native laborer" and "a colonist," and "native cattle broken to the yoke." A black man guides a cattle-drawn cart on the dirt road outside of the fenced mission fields where black laborers work. Begun under the auspices of the American Colonization Society and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the mission moved on March 4, 1837 to Mt. Vaughan, named in honor of the Missionary Society's Secretary of the Board, Rev. John Vaughan. Contains key to figures below the image.; W.L. Breton; P.S. Duval, Lith.; Breton was a 19th-century Philadelphia painter, delineator, and early lithographer who specialized in views.

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Agricultural Laborers
  3. Blacks
  4. Cape Palmas
  5. Colonization
  6. Episcopal Church
  7. Hand Colored
  8. Liberia
  9. Lithographs
  10. Missions
  11. Palmas, Cape

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