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 StatesHere we have no idle professions of sympathy for the free blacks, subjected by our own prejudices and cruelty to poverty, ignorance, and degradation, - no visionary, but benevolent predictions of their regeneration, on being transferred from a land of Bibles and churches to the darkness and heathenism of Africa, - no sickly, puerile sentimentality about the diffusion Of the arts and sciences and the light of Christianity throughout a benighted con tinent, by sending to it a horde of miserable wretches.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.