African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United States, an Indispensable Auxiliary to African Missions. A Lecture

"African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United States, an Indispensable Auxiliary to African Missions" by David Christy is a record from the 1800s that centers on the American Colonization Society’s work of setting up colonies in Africa and how that relates to spreading Christianity. The author looks at the lives of free and enslaved people in the United States, along with the wins and losses of missionaries in Liberia. The book starts by clearing up wrong ideas about colonization and how it affects the chance to spread the Christian faith. Christy goes over the history of the American Colonization Society, pointing out important people and events that led to Liberia becoming a place for missions. Early missionaries had to deal with tough problems, like old customs, practices such as having multiple wives, and events caused by governments and society that got in the way of Christianity's growth, and those are presented in the account. The author links the fates of African colonization and missionary work, putting importance on the moral need to change both the land being colonized and the people living there.