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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1860-07-07 | | Notes: | The writer discusses possible uses for the Great Eastern ship that made its maiden voyage to America in June. The ship was originally built to take advantage of the increase in immigration to Australia. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 | | Newspaper: | New York Public Library -- Schomburg Collection | | Title: | The Progress of Civilization Along the West Coast of Africa | | Date Published: | 1861 | | Notes: | Speech emphasizing the benefits of colonization in Africa. The speaker listed each benefit and positive feature of Africa in a very rational and pragmatic way emphasizing trade, economics, education and Christian missionary work that have improved the colonized areas. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-01-19 | | Notes: | The writer offers a brief review of a new book published by African explorer Robert Campbell. He comments on Campbell's findings that slavery is prevalent in Africa, and on other interesting information about the country. He tells his readers that if it had not been for the existence of slavery in Africa, there would be no slavery in the U.S.; that slavery existed there thousands of years before the discovery of America. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-01-19 | | Notes: | The writer sternly responds to a letter previously published in the newspaper. He defends his affiliation with the African Civilization Society and insists that it is not associated with Colonization in any fashion. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 | | Newspaper: | African Repository | | Title: | Address of Rev. Alexander Crummell At the Anniversary Meeting of the Massachusetts Colonization Society | | Date Published: | 1861-09 | | Notes: | Lengthy speech describing the current conditions in Africa, the new colony in Monrovia and in Liberia. The speaker emphasized the abundance of natural resources, the stability of the freedom based government, and the availability of education to everyone. (Speech 24099 is a duplicate of this speech. Speech 24140 offers another version of this speech.) |
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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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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-11-23 | | Notes: | The writer considers two suggestions for dealing with the slaves once they are free men and women. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Date Published: | 1861-12-14 | | Notes: | With "three-fourths of a million" white men joining the Union army and heading into war, the North is suffering from a labor shortage. The writer suggests that now is the time for free African Americans to fill those needed positions and lift themselves out of menial jobs. He focuses on the change taking place within the social structure. |
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