[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [LIBERIA].

Rev. R.L. Stewart and one of his Redeemed Slave Boys of the Pessa Tribe, Charley Stewart - native name, "Mattaw Dombow" - now traveling in America in aid of the work until May 25, 1898, when we will set sail for Africa. 1898.

4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. printed card (toning to margins, corner wear, possibly trimmed at edges). With "R.L. Stewart" penciled identification on back.

A fundraising card for the Training and Industrial Mission School in Monrovia, Liberia. It promises donors that a donation of $25 or £5 would support one of their "rescued heathen slaves, boys and girls" for one year. In return, the Mission would rename the child after their donor and that the donee would correspond with the donor.

Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [LIBERIA].

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