The Virginian History of African ColonizationMacfarlane & Fergusson, 1855 - 116 páginas |
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Página vii
... Liberia : * It is universally admitted that the slave trade has. Congress having thus devolved upon the government of the United States a ne- cessity for providing an asylum for re- captured Africans , it became the interest of the ...
... Liberia : * It is universally admitted that the slave trade has. Congress having thus devolved upon the government of the United States a ne- cessity for providing an asylum for re- captured Africans , it became the interest of the ...
Página viii
... Liberia , it seems little less than a miracle , and looks like one of those instances in which the great Disposer of events chooses the weak and foolish things of the world to confound the wise and mighty . In this view of it , African ...
... Liberia , it seems little less than a miracle , and looks like one of those instances in which the great Disposer of events chooses the weak and foolish things of the world to confound the wise and mighty . In this view of it , African ...
Página x
... Liberia . But farther reflection and more accurate information have dissipated our doubts . Tropical Africa is the cradle of the negro race ; and nothing seems to us more improba- ble than that the original seat of a peo- ple is not a ...
... Liberia . But farther reflection and more accurate information have dissipated our doubts . Tropical Africa is the cradle of the negro race ; and nothing seems to us more improba- ble than that the original seat of a peo- ple is not a ...
Página xi
... Liberia ; and , except in case of peculiar fitness , he would not recommend the sending of emigrants who have no means of support other than that which the Colonization Soeiety can furnish . † Thousands of dollars are annually remitted ...
... Liberia ; and , except in case of peculiar fitness , he would not recommend the sending of emigrants who have no means of support other than that which the Colonization Soeiety can furnish . † Thousands of dollars are annually remitted ...
Página xvi
... Liberia coming directly out of slavery is another trophy far exceeding that of any similar moral enterprise of the age . These results are worth all the suffer- ings and burdens of their savage ances- tors , who would have expired ...
... Liberia coming directly out of slavery is another trophy far exceeding that of any similar moral enterprise of the age . These results are worth all the suffer- ings and burdens of their savage ances- tors , who would have expired ...
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abolition Abolitionists Africa agents amendment American Colonization Society annual meeting appropriation Assembly asylum Ayes bill Board of Managers Brodnax Bryce of G Cape Palmas cause Christian ciety citizens coast of Africa Colonists Coloniza committee Commonwealth Congress debate emancipation emigrants favor free colored free negroes free persons friends gentleman Gholson ginia Government Governor Governor of Virginia honor hope House of Delegates humanity James JAMES PLEASANTS January Jefferson John John Tyler land Legislature Liberia Lynchburg Madison manumission manumitted Marshall ment Messrs missionary Monroe Monrovia motion mulattoes native noes object opinion Patteson peace persons of color petitions population present Preston question Randolph removal of free Resolved Richmond Rives scheme Secretary settlement Sierra Leone slave-holding slavery slaves Smith Society of Virginia South territory THOMAS JEFFERSON tion Society transportation Treasurer United vote Washington William Witcher
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Página iii - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 3 - However our present interests may restrain us within our own limits, it is impossible not to look forward to distant times, when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits, and cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent, with a people speaking the same language, governed in similar forms, and by similar laws; nor can we contemplate with satisfaction either blot or mixture on that surface.
Página 18 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States...
Página 51 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 51 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 5 - Having long ago made up my mind on this subject, I have no hesitation in saying, that I have ever thought that the most desirable measure which could be adopted, for gradually drawing off this part of our population...
Página 6 - Whereas the general assembly of Virginia have repeatedly sought to obtain an asylum beyond the limits of the United States for such persons of color as had been or might be emancipated under the laws of this commonwealth, but have hitherto found all their efforts frustrated^ either by the disturbed state of other nations or domestic caus.es equally unpropitious to its success.
Página 53 - ... more important to the slave States, is highly so to the others also, if they were serious in their arguments on the Missouri question. The slave States, too, if more interested, would also contribute more by their gratuitous liberation, thus taking on themselves alone the first and heaviest item of expense.
Página v - Whereas, the General Assembly of Virginia have repeatedly sought to obtain an asylum beyond the limits of the United States, for such persons of colour as have been, or may be, emancipated under the laws of this commonwealth, but have hitherto found all their efforts frustrated, either by the disturbed state of other nations, or domestic causes equally unpropitious to...
Página 5 - I received, in the last year of my entering into the administration of the general government, a letter from the Governor of Virginia, consulting me, at the request of the Legislature of the State, on the means of procuring some such asylum, to which these people might be occasionally sent.