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[Footnote 1: "The African Repository", XVI, p. 22.

2: "The African Repository", XVI, p. 23; Alexander, "A History of Colonization", p. 347.

3: "Ibid"., XVI, p. 113.

4: Jay, "An Inquiry", pp. 25, 29; Hodgkin, "An Inquiry", p. 31.

5: "The African Repository", IV, p. 276; Griffin, "A Plea for Africa", p. 65.

6: Jay, "An Inquiry", passim; "The Journal of Negro History", I, pp. 276-301; and Stebbins, "Facts and Opinions", pp.200-201.

7: Hart, "Slavery and Abolition", p. 237.

8: "The Journal of Negro History", I, pp. 284-296 Garrison, "Thoughts on Colonization", p. 204.

9: "The African Repository", XXXIII, p. 117.

10: "The African Repository", XXIII, p. 117.

11: "The African Repository", IX, pp. 86-88.

12: "Ibid.", IX, p. 88.

13: "If something is not done, and soon done," said he, "we shall be the murderers of our own children. The "murmura venturos nautis prudentia ventos" has already reached us (from Santo Domingo); the revolutionary storm, now sweeping the globe will be upon us, and happy if we make timely provision to give it an easy passage over our land. From the present state of things in Europe and America, the day which begins our combustion must be near at hand; and only a single spark is wanting to make that day tomorrow. If we had begun sooner, we might probably have been allowed a lengthier operation to clear ourselves, but every day's delay lessens the time we may take for emancipation."

As to the mode of emancipation, he was satisfied that that must be a matter of compromise between the passions, the prejudices, and the real difficulties which would each have its weight in that operation. He believed that the first chapter of this history, which was begun in St. Domingo, and the next succeeding ones, would recount how all the whites were driven from all the other islands. This, he thought, would prepare their minds for a peaceable accommodation between justice and policy; and furnish an answer to the difficult question, as to where the colored emigrants should go. He urged that the country put some plan under way, and the sooner it did so the greater would be the hope that it might be permitted to proceed peaceably toward consummation. See Ford edition of "Jefferson's Writings", VI, p. 349, VII, pp. 167, 168.

14: "Letter of Mr. Stanbury Boyce;" and "The African Repository."

15: "Philadelphia Gazette," Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 1842; "United States Gazette," Aug. 2-5, 1842; and the "Pennsylvanian," Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 1842.

16: "The African Repository", XVI, pp. 113-115.

17: "The African Repository," XXI, p. 114.

18: "The African Repository," XVI, p. 116.

19: "The African Repository," XVI, p. 115.

20: "Ibid.," XVI, p. 116.

21: Speaking of this colony Kingsley said: "About eighteen months ago, I carried my son George Kingsley, a healthy colored man of uncorrupted morals, about thirty years of age, tolerably well educated, of very industrious habits, and a native of Florida, together with six prime African men, my own slaves, liberated for that express purpose, to the northeast side of the Island of Hayti, near Porte Plate, where we arrived in the month of October, 1836, and after application to the local authorities, from whom I rented some good land near the sea, and thickly timbered with lofty woods, I set them to work cutting down trees, about the middle of November, and returned to my home in Florida. My son wrote to us frequently, giving an account of his progress. Some of the fallen timber was dry enough to burn in January, 1837, when it was cleared up, and eight acres of corn planted, and as soon as circumstances would allow, sweet potatoes, yams, cassava, rice, beans, peas, plantains, oranges, and all sorts of fruit trees, were planted in succession. In the month of October, 1837, I again set off for Hayti, in a coppered brig of 150 tons, bought for the purpose and in five days and a half, from St. Mary's in Georgia, landed my son's wife and children, at Porte Plate, together with the wives and children of his servants, now working for him under an indenture of nine years; also two additional families of my slaves, all liberated for the express purpose of transportation to Hayti, where they were all to have as much good land in fee, as they could cultivate, say ten acres for each family, and all its proceeds, together with one-fourth part of the net proceeds of their labor, on my son's farm, for themselves; also victuals, clothes, medical attendance, etc., gratis, besides Saturdays and Sundays, as days of labor for themselves, or of rest, just at their option."

"On my arrival at my son's place, called Cabaret (twenty-seven miles east of Porte Plate) in November, 1837, as before stated, I found everything in the most flattering and prosperous condition. They had all enjoyed good health, were overflowing with the most delicious variety and abundance of fruits and provisions, and were overjoyed at again meeting their wives and children; whom they could introduce into good comfortable log houses, all nicely whitewashed, and in the midst of a profuse abundance of good provisions, as they had generally cleared five or six acres of their land each, which being very rich, and planted with every variety to eat or to sell on their own account, and had already laid up thirty or forty dollars apiece. My son's farm was upon a larger scale, and furnished with more commodious dwelling houses, also with store and out houses. In nine months he had made and housed three crops of corn, of twenty-five bushels to the acre, each, or one crop every three months. His highland rice, which was equal to any in Carolina, so ripe and heavy as some of it to be couched or leaned down, and no bird had ever troubled it, nor had any of his fields ever been hoed, or required hoeing, there being as yet no appearance of grass. His cotton was of an excellent staple. In seven months it had attained the height of thirteen feet; the stalks were ten inches in circumference, and had upwards of five hundred large boles on each stalk (not a worm nor red bug as yet to be seen). His yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes, were incredibly large, and plentifully thick in the ground; one kind of sweet potato, lately introduced from Taheita (formerly Otaheita) Island in the Pacific, was of peculiar excellence; tasted like new flour and grew to an ordinary size in one month. Those I ate at my son's place had been planted five weeks, and were as big as our full grown Florida potatoes. His sweet orange trees budded upon wild stalks cut off (which every where abound), about six months before had large tops, and the buds were swelling as if preparing to flower. My son reported that his people had all enjoyed good health and had labored just as steadily as they formerly did in Florida and were well satisfied with their situation and the advantageous exchange of circumstances they had made. They all enjoyed the friendship of the neighboring inhabitants and the entire confidence of the Haytian Government."

"I remained with my son all January, 1838 and assisted him in making improvements of different kinds, amongst which was a new two-story house, and then left him to go to Port au Prince, where I obtained a favorable answer from the President of Hayti, to his petition, asking for leave to hold in fee simple, the same tract of land upon which he then lived as a tenant, paying rent to the Haytian Government, containing about thirty-five thousand acres, which was ordered to be surveyed to him, and valued, and not expected to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, or about ten cents an acre. After obtaining this land in fee for my son, I returned to Florida in February, in 1838." See "The African Repository", XIV, pp. 215-216.

22: "Niles Register", LXVI, pp. 165, 386.

23: "Niles Register", LXVII, p. 180.

24: "The African Repository", XVI, p. 28.

25: "Ibid.", p. 29.

26: "Letter of Mr. Stanbury Boyce."

27: St. Lucia and Trinidad were then considered unfavorable to the working of the new system.--See "The African Repository", XXVII, p. 196.

28: "Niles Register", LXIII, p. 65.

29: "Ibid.", LXIII, p. 65.

30: Cromwell, "The Negro in American History", pp. 43-44.

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