A Treatise on African Colonization; In Which the Principles, Objects, and Claims, of That Institution Are Set Forth in a Condensed Form (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1844 Excerpt: ... INFLUENCE OP COLONIZATION ON SLAVERY. 15 and you create the strongest argument in favor of the abolition of slavery." Chief Justice Marshall. It is true that slave holders have approved and greatly advanced the institution and perhaps some of them from motives of selfishness. Reasoning that "if the free colored people were removed, our slaves will be more quiet; and even if my neighboring planters are prevailed on to send their slaves, mine will be the more valuable." It was originally the design of the undertaking to send over as pioneers to Africa free people of color, as it was supposed among them might be found persons of more resolution and enteiprise; and knowing too, as Marshall intimates, that slave holders must be convinced that the negro is capable of self government ere they would consent to emancipate. The expectation was therefore indulged, that when the slave holding community was satisfied that the condition of the slave would be improved the work of emancipation would keep pace in advance of Colonization operations. The correctness of this opinion will appear from the following facts. John McDonough of New Orleans, sent during the year 1842, 79 slaves at his own expense to Liberia. For fifteen years he had been instructing them in science, arts, and domestic economy, and preparing them for the use of civil liberty, and the testimony given to the success of his efforts is, that such a company of slaves was never known in the state of Louisiana. Industrious, intelligent, pious, they have gone to the land of the free, to hand down like the pilgrim fathers, their influence to future generations. Mr. M. was offered about nine months before their departure $2,500 for a single individual, but he assured his applicant for human bodies and souls that...