The Virginian History of African ColonizationMacfarlane & Fergusson, 1855 - 116 páginas |
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Página iv
... soon attracted the public attention . Mr. Jefferson pre- pared a comprehensive plan of coloniza- tion in 1776 ; but nothing definite was done , probably because when the report of the committee of revision was acted upon , Jefferson ...
... soon attracted the public attention . Mr. Jefferson pre- pared a comprehensive plan of coloniza- tion in 1776 ; but nothing definite was done , probably because when the report of the committee of revision was acted upon , Jefferson ...
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... soon as the country was again at peace , the public mind reverted with re- newed interest to the subject of coloniza- tion ; and in December 1816 , the General Assembly passed the following resolutions by a majority of 137 out of 146 ...
... soon as the country was again at peace , the public mind reverted with re- newed interest to the subject of coloniza- tion ; and in December 1816 , the General Assembly passed the following resolutions by a majority of 137 out of 146 ...
Página vi
... soon after the passage of the Virginia resolutions , and laid the foundation of the Colonization Society ; burying under its corner - stone all party feelings in politics , and all sec- tarian jealousies in religion . What but the over ...
... soon after the passage of the Virginia resolutions , and laid the foundation of the Colonization Society ; burying under its corner - stone all party feelings in politics , and all sec- tarian jealousies in religion . What but the over ...
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... 490 persons with abundant supplies . Indian ambus- cades were in every hedge . The settlers were afraid to go out for food or recrea tion . Famine with all its horrors was soon among them , and disease and death followed in X INTRODUCTION .
... 490 persons with abundant supplies . Indian ambus- cades were in every hedge . The settlers were afraid to go out for food or recrea tion . Famine with all its horrors was soon among them , and disease and death followed in X INTRODUCTION .
Página xi
... soon among them , and disease and death followed in its train . They ate the skins of horses , the bodies of Indians , dogs , and vermin . Of 490 persons , 60 only survived . " The first two expeditions to our shores were overwhelmed at ...
... soon among them , and disease and death followed in its train . They ate the skins of horses , the bodies of Indians , dogs , and vermin . Of 490 persons , 60 only survived . " The first two expeditions to our shores were overwhelmed at ...
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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.