Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 5: September, 1829
Our friends in Lynchburg will, we hepe, do us the justice to believe, that our inability hitherto to receive emigrants from their immediate vicini ty, has been the cause of deep regret. It was the purpose of the Board to have given several coloured persons from Lynchburg a passage in the Harriet; but it was ascertained that a number ofapplicants nearer to Nor folk, and equally entitled to aid, were ready and waiting to embark; and that without great inconvenience, and perhaps delay, this purpose could not be fulfilled. In truth, if our friends will consider the difficulty of pro ceeding in such a way as to meet the views of all, when those seeking for a passage are so remote from each other, and the times when they can em bark are so various, and when so much depends upon circumstances which no sagacity can foresee, they will, we are confident, impute to other causes than neglect or inconsideration, the occasional disappointments to which applicants for emigration may be subjected. Of such disappointments, the chief cause is the want of adequate funds.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book chronicles the early work of the American Colonization Society and its goal to send free people of color back to Africa. The author provides a historical vantage point from which to examine the conditions for free people of color in the United States during the early 1800s. As the author shares accounts from Johannes Sterreberg Rupt, an overseer responsible for purchasing cattle for the government, the underlying motivations for the free black community to seek refuge in the mountains, deserts, or become enslaved become clear, painting a vivid picture of the desperation and indignity they faced. The author chronicles the founding of the American Colonization Society and its early successes and failures, arguing that with enough funding, the society could successfully relocate and establish free people of color in Africa. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781334685484_0
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