Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist. Pennsylvania Colonization Society. [membership certificate] [graphic] / James Queen, delt.

Life membership certificate containing a "View of Monrovia," the original settlement of Liberia, the African American colony established by the American Colonization Society in 1822. Depicts a landing party with well-dressed African American emigrant men arriving to a crowd of male and female well-wishers and family at the palm-tree lined shore of the colony. New colonists depart the boat and run to relatives as Liberian men raise their hands in greeting. White sailors man the small boat. In the background, another landing party with new colonists sails from the transport ship. The settlement of Liberia is visible in the distance. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society, established in 1826, was a state chapter of the controversial American Colonization Society established in 1816 that promoted black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality and to end slavery.