Facts and Opinions

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Excerpt from Facts and Opinions: Touching the Real Origin, Character American Influence of the American Colonization Society: Views of Wilberforce, Clarkson and Others, and Opinions of the Free People of Color of the United States The scheme of sending Our free mined population to Africa, prosecuted in the manner it is by the Coloniza tion Society, and forwarded as it is by extraordinary and most reprehensible legislation, is exciting a disastrous in¿uence on the prospects of the colored people, both bond and free, and is familiarizing the public mind With injustice and cruelty. The following pages afford ample materials, drawn from the writings and speeches of the advocates of this scheme, for learning its true origin and real purport. It will be seen that the idea of banishing the free blacks sprang from the alarm caused by a slave insurrection, and that, from first to last, the enterprise has been regarded as intimately connected With the secu E rity of the slaveholders and the permanency of human bondage. 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.