Amos Herring

1793–1873

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Information About Going to Liberia: With Things Which Every Emigrant Ought to Know

Amos Herring ⬩ 1852

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The Independent Republic of Liberia; Its Constitution and Declaration of Independence; Address of the Colonists to the Free People of Color in the United States

Amos Herring ⬩ 1848

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Amos Herring was born into slavery in North Carolina, associated with the Presbyterian Church in Virginia, and emigrated to Liberia after gaining his freedom, where he was one of the original signers of the 1847 Liberian Declaration of Independence.