Excerpt from Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Colonization Society: Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 30, 1849Whereas the Republic of Liberia ought to have within itself the means of educating citizens for all the duties of public and private life, - among which means a College is indispensable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.