Thoughts on African Colonization

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Garrison William Lloyd. Thoughts on African Colonization

PREFACE

PART I

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

SECTION I

SECTION II

SECTION III

SECTION IV

SECTION V

SECTION VI

SECTION VII

SECTION VIII

SECTION IX

SECTION X

PART II

SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF COLOR

A VOICE PROM PHILADELPHIA

A VOICE FROM NEW-YORK

A VOICE FROM BOSTON

A VOICE FROM BALTIMORE

A VOICE FROM WASHINGTON

A VOICE FROM BROOKLYN

A VOICE FROM HARTFORD

A VOICE FROM MIDDLETOWN

A VOICE FROM NEW-HAVEN

A VOICE FROM COLUMBIA

A VOICE FROM NANTUCKET

A VOICE FROM PITTSBURGH

A VOICE FROM WILMINGTON

A VOICE FROM HARRISBURG

A VOICE FROM ROCHESTER

A VOICE FROM PROVIDENCE

A VOICE FROM TRENTON

ADDRESS

A VOICE FROM LYME

A VOICE PROM LEWISTOWN

ADDRESS

A VOICE FROM NEW-BEDFORD

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In attacking the system of slavery, I clearly foresaw all that has happened to me. I knew, at the commencement, that my motives would be impeached, my warnings ridiculed, my person persecuted, my sanity doubted, my life jeoparded: but the clank of the prisoner's chains broke upon my ear – it entered deeply into my soul – I looked up to Heaven for strength to sustain me in the perilous work of emancipation – and my resolution was taken.

In opposing the American Colonization Society, I have also counted the cost, and as clearly foreseen the formidable opposition which will be arrayed against me. Many of the clergy are enlisted in its support: their influence is powerful. Men of wealth and elevated station are among its contributors: wealth and station are almost omnipotent. The press has been seduced into its support: the press is a potent engine. Moreover, the Society is artfully based upon and defended by popular prejudice: it takes advantage of wicked and preposterous opinions, and hence its success. These things grieve, they cannot deter me. 'Truth is mighty, and will prevail.' It is able to make falsehood blush, and tear from hypocrisy its mask, and annihilate prejudice, and overthrow persecution, and break every fetter.

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This is not a fancy sketch – it is not improbable: on the contrary, it is the obvious and hitherto certain consequence of bringing hastily together large bodies of civilized men with unlettered barbarians.

Jealousy will be another fruitful source of contention. The population of Africa is divided into a vast number of tribes, governed by petty kings, – sometimes indeed united by an amicable league, but commonly distinct and independent. Some of these tribes will form alliances with the colonists, either to obtain protection from their more formidable rivals or from motives of fear, curiosity or selfishness. In this manner, tribe will be arrayed against tribe throughout that vast continent; the tide of commotion, gathering fresh impetuosity in its headlong career, will rush from the mountains down to the ocean, devastating all that is beautiful, and swiftly defacing that which will require the labors of centuries to restore to its pristine excellence; there will be wars and rumors of wars, succeeded by deceitful and unstable treaties ratified only to be broken at a favorable moment; and these collisions will not cease until the colonists obtain an undisputed mastery over the natives.

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