 | Anti-slavery conference - 1869 - 178 pages
...the free people of colour of the United States. Article II. The object to which its attention shall be exclusively directed is, to promote and execute...colonizing, with their consent, the free people of colour residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall see fit. And the Society... | |
 | Lewis Tappan - History - 1870 - 444 pages
...them in the scheme. The ostensible object was expressed in the second article of its constitution : "The object to which its attention is to be exclusively...other place, as Congress shall deem most expedient." The object in view, therefore, was the removal of the free negroes to Africa, if Congress so determined;... | |
 | Lewis Tappan - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 456 pages
...in the second article of its constitution : "The object to which its attention is to bo ci-iinsively directed is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) tho free people of color residing in our country, in Africa, or such otlier place, as Congress shall... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 836 pages
...Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States." Its " exclusive " object was to promote and execute a plan for colonizing, with...country in Africa, or such other place as Congress may direct. Its first President was Hushrod Washington, and for some twenty years most of the distinguished... | |
 | African Americans - 1842 - 472 pages
...declared that the object to which the attention of the Society was exclusively to be diiected was, to promote and execute a plan for colonizing, with...country, in Africa or such other place as Congress shall dccm most expedient. It will not have escaped your observation, that at the meeting of the 21st December,... | |
 | African Americans - 1838 - 406 pages
...Constitution of the American Colonization Society, as adopted in 1817, and in that respect unchanged, says : " The object to which its attention is to be exclusively...promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their own consent) the ' free people of color, residing in our own country, in Africa or such other ' place... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1900 - 618 pages
...sympathy. We know your rights, they say, and we respect them." — Ibid., vol. vii, p. 100. * Art. II. " The object to which its attention is to be exclusively...other place as Congress shall deem most expedient." every State, teem with descriptions of the free blacks. They are held up to the community as " a horde... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1900 - 618 pages
...sympathy. We know your rights, they say, and we respect them."—Ibid., vol. vii, p. 100. * Art. II. " The object to which its attention is to be exclusively...to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with thoir consent) the free people of color residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 950 pages
...SOCIETY, THE NATIONAL, OF AMEBICA. An association organized in 1816, by Robert Finley (qv), "to promote a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free...country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress may deem most expedient." Branches were established throughout the country and an active propaganda... | |
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The object to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient. 
