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title: 'An Address on the Missionary Aspect of African Colonization'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Adair Lyon'
date: 1850-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Missions (General)'
- 'Colonization'
scriptures:
- 'Numbers 23'
- 'Genesis 50'
- 'Psalms 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/lyon-1850-an-address-on-the-missionary-aspect-of-african-colonization
---

# An Address on the Missionary Aspect of African Colonization

1850 address arguing African colonization (and even the slave trade) may be used by Providence to civilize and Christianize Africa, sending back converted Africans as missionaries.

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