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| Speaker or Author: | Williams, Rev. Peter | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- New York Public Library -- Schomburg Collection | | Title: | Discourse Delivered in St. Philip's Church, for the Benefit of the Coloured Community of Wilberforce, in Upper Canada. | | Date Published: | 1830 | | Notes: | Speech given for the benefit of the "coloured community of Wilberforce" in Upper Canada. Speech addresses efforts of the Colonization Society to relocate free people of color to Africa and Hayti. (Speech 00793 is duplicate of this speech) |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-05-27 | | Notes: | Despite its good intentions, the writer believes that the American Colonization movement is a politically motivated ploy to remove people of color from the U.S., and thus solve the moral problem of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | National Reformer (1838 - 1839) | | Date Published: | 1839-02 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the recent speeches of Henry Clay and Thomas Moore. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1851-04-09 | | Notes: | The writer combines a mention of recent church meetings with a brief overview of the presence of schools in the Chatham area. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Title: | Colored Men of the United States and Canada! | | Date Published: | 1851-05-07 | | Notes: | The writer urges those who would aid the fugitives in Canada to send money to finance the purchase of land. He encourages his readers to stand united in their efforts to stay in Canada and build a life for themselves there. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1851-11-05 | | Notes: | The writer comments on a new newspaper being published in Washington, D.C. He regards it as a thinly veiled attempt to promote the goals and ideas of the American Colonization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1851-12-03 | | Notes: | The writer takes a further look at the economic, agricultural, political, and social significance of immigration for African Americans. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Date Published: | 1852-02-26 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers that there's a delay in providing the promised information on James Birney's position on colonization. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852) | | Title: | "Beware of imposition." | | Date Published: | 1852-03-11 | | Notes: | The writer provides an update on the activities of those who support Colonization. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859) | | Date Published: | 1856-06-07 | | Notes: | The writer discusses rumors of an upcoming visit by author H. B. Stowe. He believes those who would make a profit off the condition of fugitive slaves in Canada are using this visit as a money making scheme. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859) | | Date Published: | 1856-07-12 | | Notes: | The writer discusses the polical ideas on Colonization, immigration, and separation from the U.S. currently attributed to Parliament member Edwin Larwill. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859) | | Date Published: | 1859-01-29 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers that the question of "African civilization" is divided among two groups in Canada. One argues that civilizing Africa will put an end to the slave trade once and for all; the other is totally against anything that even sounds like immigration (or Colonization). |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-04-06 | | Notes: | As a response to conflict within the Haytian immigration movement, Henry Highland Garnet tendered his resignation as New York agent. This resignation was not accepted since James Redpath admired and respected Garnet too much to do so. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Title: | Rev. H. H. Garnet's Speech at Birmingham | | Date Published: | 1861-11-16 | | Notes: | The speaker approves of the civilization goals of the African Aid Society that proposes to move black families from Canada to Africa. He believes this offers a postive way to improve the lives of all concerned, and provide England with a different source for cotton. Like many abolitionists, he believes that slavery is mainly continued in the U.S. based on the money made from the production of cotton. |
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