Missionary Herald

The Missionary Herald (October, 1858). Contains: Annual report (including some 300 names of members present, foreign missions, etc), News from Gaboon Mission [West Africa], The Rum Trade, French Slave Trade, Assyria Mission, Mosul, Nestorians [Iran], including Oroomiah, Aliawa, Ahmedneggur [India], Miscellany (Osmany Turks, Bulgarians, Northern & Southern Armenia, etc)…
-- The Missionary Herald (November, 1860). Contains: Annual report (including some 1000 names of members present, foreign missions i.e. Cyrus Hamlin & D. W. Marsh from Turkey), the report also includes a section on the Slave Trade in Africa (The French Government promises to discontinue their “emigrant” traffic), it goes on to question whether it’s “expedient” for the Commissioners of the Foreign Missions to “memorialize” the Congress of the U.S., or the President on the subject of African slave trade? However ultimately it is decided to memorialize the Congress of the U.S., or the President only if the slave trade “interferes with the proper missionary work”, [interesting to note the beginning of the Civil war was only 5 months away], Mission to Western Turkey [Erzroom, Armenia], The War & killings in Syria “exceed a hundred thousand” and Anglo-American assistance to the thousands of refugees…

-- 3 Issues of the "Africa Repository and Colonial Journal" (Jan-Mar, 1838) -- total of 90 pages, printed in Washington, DC). The main thrust was to raise the money to relocate African slaves back to the settlement in Monroeville, Liberia (West Africa). Many intriguing articles: New Orleans Society, Preachers, Sunday School in Africa, 600 Slaves from New Orleans Emancipated by their Master on his Death, Liberia, Expedition to Bassa Cove, Maryland Society, Annual Report, and much more...