When manuscript sources were unavailable for the Liberia material, I have relied on letters published in nineteenth-century periodicals. It should be noted, however, that procolonization periodicals such as the African Repository and Colonial Journal routinely excised critical comments about Liberia from the letters they published, so their transcriptions are not entirely reliable. In the few cases where nineteenth-century periodical sources were also unavailable, I have used letters transcribed and published in Wiley, Slaves No More. Wiley’s transcriptions are also unreliable, in that he at times silently “corrects” grammar, syntax, and punctuation, and so manuscript sources should be consulted whenever possible, as I have done. When I have used Wiley’s text, I have deleted the bracketed interpolations he adds to the letters in an apparent attempt to clarify meaning, because I have found them either unnecessary, inaccurate, or obfuscating. While I take responsibility for all translations, I thank María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo and Tony Beckwith for translation assistance and advice.

ACSP American Colonization Society Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

ACSPO American Colonization Society Papers. Digital database.

AGEY Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

APSO American Periodical Series Online. Digital database.

ARCJ African Repository and Colonial Journal, Washington, DC

BEC Berendt Collection, University of Pennsylvania Museum Library, Philadelphia

BFP Blackford Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

BRC Brinton Collection, University of Pennsylvania Museum Library, Philadelphia

CAIHY Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación Histórica de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

CLFP Clay Family Papers, University of Kentucky Special Collections, Lexington

COFP Cocke Family Papers, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville

ETC University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center, Charlottesville

JMP John McDonogh Papers, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University Library, New Orleans

JRK John R. Kilby Collection, David M. Rubinstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, NC

UVL University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville

VPRB University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Philadelphia

WPFP Wickliffe-Preston Family Papers, University of Kentucky Special Collections, Lexington

WTC William Tillinghast Collection, David M. Rubinstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, NC

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

University of North Carolina, Wilson Library, Southern Historical Collection, Blackford Family Papers (BFP)

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

University of Virginia Library (UVL)

University of Virginia Library, Special Collections, Cocke Family Papers (COFP)

Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Duke University, David M. Rubinstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, John R. Kilby Collection (JRK)

Duke University, David M. Rubinstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, William Tillinghast Collection (WTC)

Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

University of Kentucky Special Collections, Clay Family Papers (CLFP)

University of Kentucky Special Collections, Wickliffe-Preston Family Papers (WPFP)

Mérida, Yucatán, México.

Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán (AGEY)

Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación Histórica de Yucatán (CAIHY)

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Tulane University Library, Louisiana Research Collection, John McDonogh Papers (JMP)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

University of Pennsylvania Museum Library, Berendt Collection (BEC)

University of Pennsylvania Museum Library, Brinton Collection (BRC)

University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (VPRB)

Washington, DC, USA.

Library of Congress, American Colonization Society Papers (ACSP)

American Colonization Society Papers (acspo). Accessed via http://www.fold3.com.

American Periodical Series Online (APSO). ProQuest. Accessed via University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación Histórica de Yucatán (CAIHY). Accessed via http://www.bibliotecavirtualdeyucatan.com.mx/busq_rap.php.

University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center (ETC). Accessed via http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/liberia/samson.html.

African Repository and Colonial Journal, Washington, DC (ARCJ)

El Fénix: Periódico Político y Mercantil, Campeche

El Museo Yucateco, Campeche

La Revista Yucateca: Periódico Político y Noticioso, Mérida

El Universal, Periódico Independiente, Mexico City