Lot
1966 
(Liberia Colonization) Bassa Cove, 16th September, 1841, dateline of lengthy 3-page letter from Louis Sheridan to Benjamin Coates in Philadelphia, Pa., with interesting content regarding his blame on the tactics of certain missions that more or less buy colonists instead of converting natives and news of Governor Thomas Buchanan's death…Poor Buchanan. I have buried him in the yard here. It was a spot he loved as the scene of his earliest toils for African welfare. Here let him rest., letter entered the mails with red "New - York, Dec 10" cds with matching straight line "Ship" handstamp and manuscript "27" rate, Very Fine. Estimate $300 - 400.
Louis Sheridan had initially opposed colonization and after North Carolina placed tighter restrictions on free people of color in the 1830's, he joined the Liberian colonization movement. He sold his slaves and moved with his family to Liberia in 1837, where he found a situation far less rosy than he anticipated and wrote (often negative) reports back to the United States. He remained there nevertheless and died there in 1844.
Realized: $425