African Colonization, Its Progress and Prospects

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Excerpt from African Colonization, Its Progress and Prospects: Addresses Delivered by William H. Allen, L. L. D., And John P. Crozer, Esq., At the Anniversary Meeting of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, Held in Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, October 25, 1853 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society Not quite two and a half centuries since, the first ship-load of Africans was imported into the British colonies of North America. They landed at Jamestown, Virginia, and were purchased by the planters. The importation, sale and purchase were regarded as honorable transactions at that time, or winked at, as not specially blameworthy. There was profit for the shipper and profit for the buyer. Other slave-freighted vessels soon followed, and before a century had elapsed slavery had established its base line for the invasion and occupation of the country all along the coast from the Hudson to Florida, and was pushing its outposts up every navigable river, a dismal cloud, electrified with ruin, resting on the horizon of our country, its pent up forces to burst forth in the tumult and carnage which now convulse and sadden the continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.