A Century of Negro Migration eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 186 pages of information about A Century of Negro Migration.

A Century of Negro Migration eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 186 pages of information about A Century of Negro Migration.

[Footnote 1:  The African Repository, XVI, p. 22.]

[Footnote 2:  The African Repository, XVI, p. 23; Alexander, A History of Colonization, p. 347.]

[Footnote 3:  Ibid., XVI, p. 113.]

[Footnote 4:  Jay, An Inquiry, pp. 25, 29; Hodgkin, An Inquiry, p. 31.]

[Footnote 5:  The African Repository, IV, p. 276; Griffin, A Plea for Africa, p. 65.]

[Footnote 6:  Jay, An Inquiry, passim; The Journal of Negro History, I, pp. 276-301; and Stebbins, Facts and Opinions, pp. 200-201.]

[Footnote 7:  Hart, Slavery and Abolition, p. 237.]

[Footnote 8:  The Journal of Negro History, I, pp. 284-296; Garrison, Thoughts on Colonization, p. 204.]

[Footnote 9:  The African Repository, XXXIII, p. 117.]

[Footnote 10:  The African Repository, XXIII, p. 117.]

[Footnote 11:  The African Repository, IX, pp. 86-88.]

[Footnote 12:  Ibid., IX, p. 88.]

[Footnote 13:  “If something is not done, and soon done,” said he, “we shall be the murderers of our own children.  The ’murmura venturos nautis prudentia ventos’ has already reached us (from Santo Domingo); the revolutionary storm, now sweeping the globe will be upon us, and happy if we make timely provision to give it an easy passage over our land.  From the present state of things in Europe and America, the day which begins our combustion must be near at hand; and only a single spark is wanting to make that day to-morrow.  If we had begun sooner, we might probably have been allowed a lengthier operation to clear ourselves, but every day’s delay lessens the time we may take for emancipation.”

As to the mode of emancipation, he was satisfied that that must be a matter of compromise between the passions, the prejudices, and the real difficulties which would each have its weight in that operation.  He believed that the first chapter of this history, which was begun in St. Domingo, and the next succeeding ones, would recount how all the whites were driven from all the other islands.  This, he thought, would prepare their minds for a peaceable accommodation between justice and policy; and furnish an answer to the difficult question, as to where the colored emigrants should go.  He urged that the country put some plan under way, and the sooner it did so the greater would be the hope that it might be permitted to proceed peaceably toward consummation.—­See Ford edition of Jefferson’s Writings, VI, p. 349, VII, pp. 167, 168.]

[Footnote 14:  Letter of Mr. Stanbury Boyce; and The African Repository.]

[Footnote 15:  Philadelphia Gazette, Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 1842; United States Gazette, Aug. 2-5, 1842; and the Pennsylvanian, Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 1842.]

[Footnote 16:  The African Repository, XVI, pp. 113-115.]

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