Remarks On African Colonization And Abolition of Slavery in Two Parts volume 1
Remarks On African Colonization And Abolition of Slavery in Two Parts volume 1
Cyril Pearl
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This has never been doubted. It is farther ad- mitted, that if this influence tends to perpetuate slavery, its character and influence ought to be changed, or the Society abandoned. However beneficial the Society might be to the free blacks, to this country, or to * Fifteenth Report, pp. 14, 15. F ^b. Pp. 21, 22. \ Constitution. 19 Africa, I could not plead its cause if universal emancipation was there- by rendered more hopeless, Jihat then is the influence of this Society on slavery? To answer... this question, we must examine its history, the views of its founders and managers, and such facts as we can collect from other sources. Emancipation, to some extent, had taken place long before the Socie- ty was formed ; but the experiments thus made, convinced many of the Southern people that emancipation, under existing circumstances, was unsafe and injurious to the slaves, their masters, and those made free. Mr. Clay stated, at the first Annual Meeting of the Society, that "sev- eral of the states had, and perhaps all of them would, prohibit entirely emancipation, unless some such outlet was created.
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