Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Emigration Origin	Madison Co., Virginia
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male
Legal Status	Enslaved

Individuals

Wilford James Jr.

Recorded Names

Welford Jr. 2 8
Wilford James Jr. 3

Recorded Ages

infant

Associated Groups

Persons in Kentucky (slaveholder) 2 8	enslaved by

Events

	Madison Co., Virginia (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1856 2 8	View Event Details	Enslaved
ship's passage	Baltimore, Maryland (Origin) Monrovia (Destination)	26 Nov 1856 to 21 Jan 1857 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	View Event Details	Enslaved

Citations

[1] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Subject File, 1792-1964, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 314 (https://www.fold3.com/image/46670100 : accessed 20 Mar 2021).
[2] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Subject File, 1792-1964, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 314 (https://www.fold3.com/image/46670160 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[3] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Subject File, 1792-1964, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 314 (https://www.fold3.com/image/46670113 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[4] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Outgoing Correspondence, 1839-1912, Letters from Liberia, 1843-1874, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 240 (https://www.fold3.com/image/31877737 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[5] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Outgoing Correspondence, 1839-1912, Letters from Liberia, 1843-1874, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 240 (https://www.fold3.com/image/31877843 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[6] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Manumissions and Emigrants, Emigration, Record of Emigrants, Maryland State Colonization Society Papers, Maryland Historical Society; digital image, Maryland State Archives. Microfilm Reel 27 (http://mdhistory.msa.maryland.gov/msa_sc5977/scm013250/html/msa_sc5977_scm13250-0362.html : accessed 30 Mar 2021).
[7] "Voyages of the Ship M. C. Stevens." Maryland Colonization Journal, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 6 (Nov 1857): 81.
[8] "List of Emigrants by the Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, From Baltimore Nov. 29th, and Norfolk Dec. 6, 1856." African Repository, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan 1857): 21.
[9] "Annual Report of the American Colonization Society" African Repository, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Mar 1858): 73.