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Article: Circular addressed to the colored brethren and friends in America
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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An Unpublished Essay by Lott Cary, Sent from Liberia to Virginia, 1827 BORN in slavery about 1780 in Charles City County, Virginia, and hired out in Richmond in the early 1800s, Lott Cary became a leader of the African Americans who sailed to Liberia in the 1820s with the sponsorship of the American Colonization Society. Both as a slave and as a freedman, Cary was a noted figure in Virginia's capital. As a hired slave, he excelled at his work as a shipper and marker in a Shockoe tobacco warehouse. He bought freedom in 1815 for himself and his children (his first wife had died in slavery two years earlier). Converted to Christianity in 1807, he served as a lay Baptist exhorter among black ...