African Colonization Unveiled, Volumen211L. Towers, 1853 - 32 páginas |
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abolition acres African Repository African slave trade agents agricultural American Colonization Society amount annual argument benefit benevolent bounties bounty system Cape Palmas capital cause census civilized colonists colored condition continued Coolie cost Cowan cultivated deemed direct domestic slavery EDMUND RUFFIN effect emancipation emigrants to Liberia England evil existence facts false farm favorable federacy fertility former free labor free negroes greater number greatly high price home market improvement increase individual induce industry influence interests less manumissions Massachusetts masters ment Monrovia moral natives nearly negro slaves northern number of slaves object obtain operation opinion owners pauper pecuniary persons philanthropists political population present price of land profits proprietors respective rovia serf serve settlers slave labor slave trade slaveholding South southern suffering sugar superior supply supposed tion town United Virginia wages wealth whole number
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Página 8 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced — no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon...
Página 8 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Página 22 - We enjoy health after a few months' residence in the country, as uniformly, and in as perfect a degree, as we possessed that blessing in our native country. And a distressing scarcity of provisions or any of the comforts of life, has for the last two years been entirely unknown, even to the poorest persons in this community. On these points there are, and have been, much misconception, and some malicious misrepresentations in the United States.
Página 4 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Página 8 - UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her...
Página 18 - ... we believe, on the face of the earth. Its hills and its plains are covered with a verdure which never fades ; the productions of nature keep on in their growth through all the seasons of the year. Even the natives of the country, almost without farming tools, without skill, and with very little labour, make more grain and vegetables than they can consume, and often more than they can sell.
Página 5 - The effect of this institution, if its prosperity shall equal our wishes, will be alike propitious to every interest of our domestic society ; and should it lead, as we may fairly hope it will, to the slow but gradual abolition of slavery, it will wipe from our political institutions the only blot which stains them ; — and in palliation of which, we shall not be at liberty to plead the excuse of moral necessity, until we shall have honestly exerted all the means which we possess for its EXTINCTION.
Página 27 - For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Página 7 - Tell us of the individuals who have been effectually hindered from setting their slaves at large, by what they have read in the African Repository, or by what they have heard from the agents of the Society. We say, then, that, unless the testimony of facts can deceive us, colonization is bringing the power of example to bear on public sentiment at the South, in regard to slavery. Each single instance of emancipation is indeed a small matter when compared...
Página 9 - In the simple grant of power to an agent to receive recaptured negroes, it requires broad construction to find a grant of authority) to colonize them, to build houses for them, to furnish them with farming utensils, to pay instructors to teach them, to purchase ships for their commerce, to build forts for their protection, to supply them with arms and munitions, and to employ the army and navy in their defence...