Jehudi Ashmun: Primary Sources
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| The above document is a trascription of a letter that Jehudi Ashmun wrote to a Reverend Stillman in Wethersfield, Connecticut, dated August 15, 1814. |
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The above postage stamp exemplifies Jehudi Ashmun's symbolic importance to the founding of Liberia. |
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In 1825, Jehudi Ashmun published The Liberia Farmer, or, Colonist's Guide to Independence and Domstic Comfort, in an effort both to lure African Americans to Liberia and to explain the very different agricultural conditions they would encounter should they emigrate. |
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In April 1847, the Middlebury Newsletter featured an article on Jehudi Ashmun titled, "Middlebury's Lost Man of History." |