From Human Rights HAYTI — PREJUDICE OF COLOR
It is well known to our readers that there exists an Anti-Slavery Society at Port au Prince. It consists chiefly of emigrants from the United States; and its objects are to assist the anti-slavery cause here, and to obtain and diffuse information in regard to it in Hayti. We have before us its first annual report, a neat pamphlet of 20 pages, in the English language. To show what is thought and said in Hayti, we give an extract from the remarks of the President of the Society, Mr. Evan Williams, at the anniversary meeting:
‘In the United States, the whites only enjoy their natural rights, to the exclusion of their solemn declaration before God and men. Have they taken a step to meet you? Have they extended to you the fraternal hand, in sign or peace and harmony, as to a sister republic new born? No. Wherefore?
Because your persons are swarthier, or blacker than theirs, and because their feet are on the neck of our brethren of color………………………..
(Liberator, May 25, 1838,pg 1)
