2.  Africans Taken in the Amistad.  Document No. 185 of the 1st session of the 26th Congress, containing the correspondence in relation to the captured Africans. (Reprinted by Anti-Slavery Depository, New York, 1840.)

3.  Senate Document 51 of the 2nd session of the 27th Congress.

4.  On Chapter IX (Liberia)

Much has been written about Liberia, but the books and pamphlets have been very uneven in quality.  Original sources include the reports of the American Colonization Society to 1825; The African Repository, a compendium issued sometimes monthly, sometimes quarterly, by the American Colonization Society from 1825 to 1892, and succeeded by the periodical known as Liberia; the reports of the different state organizations; J. Ashmun’s History of the American Colony in Liberia from December, 1821 to 1823, compiled from the authentic records of the colony, Washington, 1826; Ralph Randolph Gurley’s Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Washington, 1835, second edition, New York, 1839; Gurley’s report on Liberia (a United States state paper), Washington, 1850; and the Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, celebrated at Washington, January 15, 1867, with documents concerning Liberia, Washington, 1867; to all of which might be added Journal of Daniel Coker, a descendant of Africa, from the time of leaving New York, in the ship Elisabeth, Capt.  Sebor, on a voyage for Sherbro, in Africa, Baltimore, 1820.  J.H.B.  Latrobe, a president of the American Colonization Society, is prominent in the Memorial volume of 1867, and after this date are credited to him Liberia:  its Origin, Rise, Progress, and Results, an address delivered before the American Colonization Society, January 20, 1880, Washington, 1880, and Maryland in Liberia, Baltimore, 1885.  An early and interesting compilation is G.S.  Stockwell’s The Republic of Liberia:  Its Geography, Climate, Soil, and Productions, with a history of its early settlement, New York, 1868; a good handbook is Frederick Starr’s Liberia, Chicago, 1913; mention might also be made of T. McCants Stewart’s Liberia, New York, 1886; and George W. Ellis’s Negro Culture in West Africa, Neale Publishing Co., New York, 1914, is outstanding in its special field.  Two Johns Hopkins theses have been written:  John H.T.  McPherson’s History of Liberia (Studies, IX, No. 10), 1891, and E.L.  Fox’s The American Colonization Society 1817-1840 (Studies, XXXVII, 9-226), 1919; the first of these is brief and clearcut and especially valuable for its study of the Maryland colony.  Magazine articles of unusual importance are George W. Ellis’s Dynamic Factors in the Liberian Situation and Emmett J. Scott’s Is Liberia Worth Saving? both in Journal of Race Development, January, 1911.  Of English or continental works outstanding is the monumental but not altogether unimpeachable Liberia, by Sir Harry H. Johnston, with an appendix on the Flora of Liberia by Dr. Otto Stapf, 2 vols., Hutchinson