From a Colored Philadelphian, Feb 3, 1831 “I would ask some of our pretended white friends , and members of the American Colonization Society, why are they so interested in…
Category: <span>Colonization, Anti-colonization</span>
Anti-Colonization Meeting — Feb 15th at the school house … Robert Roberts is Chairman, James Barbadoes, Samuel Snowden, Hosea Easton, John Hilton, Thomas Dalton, Thomas Cole are prominently mentioned.
Considerable more discussion of Colonization, with a letter “correcting” Garrison’s comments on the circumstances of Russworm’s conversion to the Society, to which G makes a pointed response.
A large article headed as A VOICE FROM ENGLAND! It is about the American Colonization Society … Liberia Contains a description of the ACS and its settlement in Liberia, then…
ANOTHER VOICE FROM ENGLAND A letter from James Cropper to Thomas Clarkson Liverpool, 10 month, 2d, 1832 The letter is critical of Clarkson’s support of Colonization: “Great injury has been…
In reference to the Colonization Society: “ When this Society was organized, I was one of its warmest friends, and anticipated great good from its influence, both in Christianizing Africa…
SAVAGE BARBARITY ! Miss Crandall Imprisoned !!! Garrison proclaims who are the “the authors of this infamous proceeding”…. “They are friends of the American Colonization Society, and have made their…
Here is the story told in Mayer’s book, of the lecture given by Lloyd in London, June 10, 1833…..Cresson. agent of the ACS was also in London, and had been…
“ I have seen Mr. Wilberforce. He has repudiated his views of the Colonization Society, and regards its principles and purposes with disapprobation.” On the same page is a notice…
46,OOO! “American Colonization Society It appears that this old handmaiden of slavery, by her profligacy and extravagance is now involved to the amount of forty-six thousand dollars! This is the…
“A few months after the organization of the society in 1817, the colored citizens of Philadelphia, with James Forten in the chair, protested against its principles, predicted its unhappy influence;…
Anonymous letter about Cresson This letter, simply from “Observer” indicates that in a recent speech Cresson has implied that when Wilberforce signed a statement critical of colonization, that he was on…
Refers to three letters from Smith, addressed to Rev. Leonard Bacon, New Haven. G indicates that the first vindicates the doctrine of immediatism, the second both condemns and praises the…
Includes a notice of the dissolution of the Copartnership of Knapp & Garrison, “by mutual consent”. With an introduction to the new volume, Garrison recites some the history of abolition,…
In a May 11 note to Knapp, written from New York, Garrison tells of meetings he has attended, and then adds this at the end: “Last evening the Colonization Society…
Here is a call to a meeting, addressed to the Colored Citizens of Boston, asking them to attend a meeting to be held in the Infant Room of the Belknap…
Barely one line, here is a tidbit of sarcasm: “Good. Friend Rogers writes Liberia thus: Lie-bury-ye!”
A. L. Haskell, writes from Newburyport, July 20th: ” I find the most of our anti-slavery friends firmly united to the parent society, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society….” Then he tells…
A brief item titled, Effrontery: “That pseudo Quaker, and colonization monomaniac, Elliot Cresson, is once more in this Commonwealth, endeavoring to dupe the people out of their money, in support…
A three-line note under the title, Puzzled: “The New York Journal of Commerce says, ‘A Colonization Convention opened its sittings in Baltimore on Thursday last. What is the precise object…
July 8, 1842 The Washington correspondent of the N.Y. American, a former Colonization agent, is quoted here at length, telling of his disillusionment and change on mind. Signed simply, R.M.T.H
March 31, 1843 Here is a listing of the number of emigrants sent to Liberia, since the founding of the Society, showing also the expense of this process, that the…
July 9, 1847 Garrison here addresses the Rev. Dr. Humphrey, Agent of the Colonization Society, who has recently preached at the Old South Church, Boston. “Sir, If there be any…
March 31, 1848 An item from the N.Y. Journal of Commerce, placed under Refuge of Oppression, praises the “independent Republic of free blacks on the Continent of Africa”. The editor,…
January 26, 1849 Here is notice of an ACS meeting recently, in Washington. It records that there were 443 emigrants for Liberia in the past year, of whom 324 were…
March 16, 1849 This letter, is from Clay to Richard Pindell, Esq., dated Feb 17, 1849, New Orleans. Clay states his unhappiness with slavery and he laments that in 1799…
May 18, 1849 At the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, here are a few excerpted sentences from resolutions passed. Regarding the Free Soil Party: “… while we…
April 19, 1850 Correspondence from the Journal of Commerce, tells of plans to build four more steam ships, to make four trips each for the emigration of free persons of …
June 28, 1850 Under the title A New Plan of Emancipation, an article signed by Emanuel Weiss, calls for a method to “unite the two objects of humanity and politics,”…
June 27, 1851 A letter from Parker Pillsbury, from Concord, N.H., dated June 9, 1851, gives a negative account of a lecture by an agent of the Colonization Society, a…
January 30, 1852 A long letter from Henry W. Wright, written Jan 17, 1852, from Michigan, to Richard D. Webb, Dublin, Ireland. Wright sends excerpts from the Genius of Emancipation,…
February 13, 1852 Under the Refuge of Oppression column there are excerpts from a pamphlet by Birney, “addressed to the free colored people, taking the detestable colonization position, that they…
February 27, 1852 At the Third Christian Church, New Bedford, the assembly enacts five strong resolutions urging non-support of the Colonization Society.
March 5, 1852 A long letter from Smith: “You have suddenly fallen in love with the American Colonization Society. You are deceived by it, as I was deceived by it. …
January 14, 1853 An article comments on the official organ of the Colonization Society, the African Repository, now in its twenty-ninth volume, and includes an excerpt from its current number. …
May 17, 1861 The letter is from Garrison, addressed to a meeting to be held at the Joy Street Church, by colored citizens, some of whom have asked for his…
May 17, 1861 An account of an “animated and protracted” meeting at the Joy Street church, at which the gathered colored people pass resolutions clearly opposing the emigration “scheme”.
May 2, 1862 A largely attended meeting was held at the South Street Church, with Robert Morris, Esq., and The Rev. J. Sella Martin presenting resolutions. Twelve resolutions are adopted,…
August 22, 1862 The text of the President’s address, here cited, appears in the Refuge of Oppression column, but here is comment on it by the editor. The occasion was…
November 14, 1862 Here is an account of the beginnings of this college, in Monrovia, including excerpts from speeches on the occasion of its inauguration. Comment by the editor includes:…
April 1, 1864 A brief article comments that, “The failure of the President’s scheme of colonization of the Freedmen in Central America, does not surprise those who have given the…