A Discourse Before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania: Delivered October 24, 1834, in St. Paul's Church, PhiladelphiaSociety, 1834 - 63 Seiten |
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00 John 00 William abolition act Abolition Societies Africa American Colonization Society Anthony Benezet Aylett Hawes Bassa Cove benevolent blessings Board of Managers bondage Capt cause census of 1830 Christian Church civilization climate colonists Coloniza coloured brethren comfort Committee condition Constitution effects Elisha Tyson Elliott Cresson emancipation emigrants existence extinc favour feeling foreign Francis Thornton free blacks freedom friends Granville Sharp Hannah Kilham happy honour hope hundred inhabitants institution Isaac Isaac Walker James James G labour land laws legislative letter liberty manumission manumitted masters Mechlin Men's Colonization Society ment Monrovia moral native negro Ninus nists North Northern objects oppressed parent Society persons Philadelphia philanthropy population present prospects reason respectable Samuel says sentiment servitude settlement settlers Sierra Leone slave-holding slave-trade slaves Society of Pennsylvania South Southern spirit testimony thousand tion trade United Virginia visited Liberia William Wilberforce Young Men's Colonization
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Seite 26 - Somerset, had established the axiom, that " as soon as any slave sets his foot on English ground, he becomes free,'''' there were many negroes in London who had been brought over by their masters.
Seite 43 - Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Seite 46 - You have gladdened my heart by convincing me that sanguine as had been my hopes of the happy effects to be produced by your institution, all my anticipations are scanty and cold compared with the reality.
Seite 31 - All my expectations in regard to the aspect of things, the health, harmony, order, contentment, industry, and general prosperity of the settlers, were more than realized. There are about two hundred buildings in the town of Monrovia, extending along the Cape Montserado, not far from a mile and a quarter.
Seite 14 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Seite 18 - ... brethren in America. So much was I pleased with what I saw, that I observed to the people, should I make a true report, it would hardly be credited in the United States.
Seite 30 - Truly we have a goodly heritage; and if there is any thing lacking in the character or condition of the people of this colony* it never can be charged to the account of the country ; it must be the fruit of our own mismanagement, or slothfulness, or vices. . But from these evils we confide in Him, to whom we are indebted for all our blessings, to preserve us. It is the topic of our weekly and daily thanksgiving to Almighty God, both in public and in private, and he knows with what sincerity, —...
Seite 25 - It has been objected that the climate is very unhealthy — this is true as it respects the whites, but erroneous as respects the coloured people. Those from the middle and northern states have to undergo what is called a seasoning, — that is, they generally take the fever the first month of their residence; but it has rarely proved fatal since...
Seite 25 - ... years of the colony, want of good houses, the great fatigues and dangers of the settlers, their irregular mode of living, and the hardships and discouragements they met with, greatly helped the other causes of sickness, which prevailed to an alarming extent, and was attended with great mortality.
Seite 31 - ... far above those of their Coloured brethren, even the most prosperous of them, that we have seen in the United States. They feel that they have a home. They have no fear of the White Man or the Coloured Man. They have no superiors. They do not look up to others, but they are looked up to by them. Their laws grow out of themselves, and are their own.