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| Speaker or Author: | Nickens, Owen B. | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Celebration in Cincinnati | | Date Published: | 1831-07-30 | | Notes: | Report from Liberator newspaper describes a speech given during celebration activities on the anniversary of the emancipation of slavery in New York state. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Anonymous | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | Address, Delivered before a Colored Association in Brooklyn, N. Y. on the evening of the 5th inst. | | Date Published: | 1831-08-27 | | Notes: | An anonymous address regarding objections to the goals of the Colonization Society, with an emphasis on the negative impact of moving people from their native country. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Paul, Nathaniel, 1792 or 3-1839 | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College | | Title: | Speeches Delivered at the Anti-Colonization Meeting in Exeter Hall, London | | Date Published: | 1833-07 | | Notes: | Speech given in London's Exeter Hall against the colonization of Africa proposed by the American Colonization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Paul, Nathaniel, 1792 or 3-1839 | | Newspaper: | Patriot | | Title: | American Colonization Society | | Date Published: | 1833-07-10 | | Notes: | Debate over the pros and cons of the goals of the American Colonization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Morel, Junius C. | | Newspaper: | National Enquirer | | Title: | Speeches at the Late Convention | | Date Published: | 1837-03-11 | | Notes: | Speech against the colonization movement given before a convention held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1837-05-13 | | Notes: | Overview of a celebration held on the anniversary of the Colonization Society. Several ministers spoke and admitted to silent compliance with the system of slavery in their sermons. The idea was to encourage African Americans to agree with colonization based on the notion that because of the Church's "admittedly evil pact with Satan" in promoting slavery, there was no chance for freed people of color to advance out of their current social situation in the U.S. The only hope expressed by these ministers was for African Americans to agree with the tenets of the Colonization Society and move to Africa. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Title: | Freedom's Journal (June 8, 1827) | | Date Published: | 1837-05-13 | | Notes: | The editor includes an excerpt from an 1827 issue of the Freedom's Journal to prove that the majority of African Americans have never agreed with the idea of colonization. Colonization presented some grand ideas and goals, but the decesdants of slaves born in the U.S. have only considered the U.S. their home. The majority of African Americans are committed to the belief that equality and racial harmony are reasonable and achievable goals in this country. |
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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: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-03-29 | | Notes: | The writer encouarges his readers to vote with the Whig party. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-08-11 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the American Colonization Society. While he views it as an evil scheme, he believes it to be ultimately powerless in the face of ethical reasoning. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-10-20 | | Notes: | The writer tells his readers that the American Colonization Society advertises its services to colonize the African coast for those who consent to do so. Yet they then go out and "beg, threaten, and beguile" in order to get that consent. Their methods are underhanded and intended merely to make money off a system based in prejudice. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-12-15 | | Notes: | Brief comment on a recent presidential speech. The writer suggests that by the his silence on the subject of abolition, Martin Van Buren has offered a boost to the American Colonization Society's cause. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1838-12-15 | | Notes: | The writer comments on the goal of Christian missionaries to "Christianize" Africa and thus help to establish a "civilized" colony there. This work currently includes the purchase of a ship for colonizationn purposes. |
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| Speaker or Author: | editor | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Date Published: | 1839-05-18 | | Notes: | The writer offers criticism of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The society focuses all its efforts on the abolition of slavery and the condition of the slaves in the south, that there is no energy left to address the problems facing free African Americans in the north. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Shadd, Abraham D. | | Newspaper: | Colored American (1837 - 1842) | | Title: | Address of Mr. A. D. Shadd of Westchester | | Date Published: | 1840-08-22 | | Notes: | Speech given on the anniversary of the emancipation of the British West Indies stressing the political implications of this and the continued slavery in the U.S. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | Anti-Slavery Reporter | | Title: | A Coloured American on the Colonization Society | | Date Published: | 1840-11-04 | | Notes: | Speech against the goals and ideals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that this society works against and not for the free people of color. He also addressed a secret resolution passed in Virginia in 1800 and again in 1816 that attempted to establish a colony in Louisiana for free people of color in order to remove them from Virginia. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Reason, Charles Lewis, 1818-1893 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Great Anti-Colonization Mass Meeting of the Coloured Citizens of the City of New York | | Date Published: | 1849-05-03 | | Notes: | Speech given against the goals of the American Colonization Society and the speaker's belief that colonization of Africa simply offered another type of enslavement to African Americans. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Ray, Charles B. (Charles Bennett), 1807-1886 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Great Anti-Colonization Mass Meeting of the Coloured Citizens of the City of New York | | Date Published: | 1849-05-03 | | Notes: | Speech against the idea and goals of the American Colonization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Great Anti-Colonization Mass Meeting of the Coloured Citizens of the City of New York. | | Date Published: | 1849-05-03 | | Notes: | Relatively brief speech regarding the events surrounding what the speaker perceived as misunderstandings regarding the intent of the American Colonization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Bibb, Henry, b. 1815 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Great Anti-Colonization Mass Meeting of the Coloured Citizens of the City of New York | | Date Published: | 1849-05-03 | | Notes: | Speech against the plans and goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker suggested Canada as an alternate choice for colonization. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Date Published: | 1849-05-03 | | Notes: | Speech following a resolution that the speaker offered emphasizing the lack of funding available to carry out the goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker expressed his belief that the idea to colonize Africa with the "nominally free" African Americans was a scheme to "dupe" the American people out of large sums of money. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Society | | Title: | Great Anti-Colonization Mass Meeting of The Coloured Citizens of the City of New York | | Date Published: | 1849-05-03 | | Notes: | Speech against the plans of the American Colonization Society. The speaker expressed his belief that colonization was inspired by the institution of American slavery as a way of solving the issue of slavery without allowing freed slaves to become members of American society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882. | | Newspaper: | Impatial Citizen | | Title: | The Presentation of the Silver Pitcher to Mrs. Smith, by Mr. Francis and H. H. Garnet on behalf of the Colored ladies of Buffalo, at Peterboro | | Date Published: | 1849-11-28 | | Notes: | Speech given while presenting a silver pitcher to Gerrit Smith to honor his work for the abolition of slavery. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- Congregational Library -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets | | Title: | A Lecture Delivered Before the Glasgow Young Men's Christian Association; And Also Before the St. George's Biblical, Literary, and Scientific Institute, London | | Date Published: | 1850 | | Notes: | Speech regarding the injustices of slavery and prejudice emphasizing the extreme cruelity that can result from fear and hatred in mass populations. The speaker noted that while slavery intended to make "beasts of burden" of human bodies, the reality of slavery demonstrated that the institution was instead a battle to chain human minds. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Patriot | | Title: | British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society | | Date Published: | 1851-05-22 | | Notes: | Speech regarding the damage slaveholding in the U.S. had done not only to humanity, but to the U.S. and everything it stood for. The speaker emphasized that worst among the negative impact slavery has succeeded in having on the U.S. in this respect are the efforts of the American Colonization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Meeting of the Colored People of New York. Determined Opposition to the Colonisation Society. | | Date Published: | 1852-01-22 | | Notes: | Brief speech denouncing the plans and goals of the American Colonization Society. |
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| Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard |
| Title: | Meeting of the Colored People of New York. Determined Opposition to the Colonisation Society. |
| Date Published: | 1852-01-22 |
| Notes: | Speech denouncing the goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that America is home to the nominally free who are being encouraged to "evangelize" Africa, and therefore their rightful place to live is in the U.S. |
| Speaker or Author: | Pennington, James W. C. | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Meeting of the Colored People of New York. Determined Opposition to the Colonisation Society. | | Date Published: | 1852-01-22 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the plans and goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that the Colonization Society in holding funds in trust for this project held too much power over a country said to be independent. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Cornish, Samuel E. (Samuel Eli), 1795?-1858 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Meeting of the Colored People of New York. Determined Opposition to the Colonisation Society. | | Date Published: | 1852-01-22 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the efforts of the Colonization Society. The speaker offered a balanced view in this stressing that the governor of the state was working with their best interests in mind, although he was misguided. He emphasized that the black population hated the white population for their efforts to remove people who by their presence offered a reminder of the guilt created by the institution of slavery. He believed, however, that any form of hate was wrong. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Reason, Charles Lewis, 1818-1893 | | Newspaper: | National Anti-Slavery Standard | | Title: | Meeting of the Colored People of New York. Determined Opposition to the Colonisation Society. | | Date Published: | 1852-01-22 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the plans and goals of the American Colonization Society. The speaker stressed that this idea is just a scheme to remove African Americans from the U.S. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Johnson, Henry W., abolitionist | | Newspaper: | Frederick Douglass' Paper | | Title: | Speech of H. W. Johnson | | Date Published: | 1852-04-15 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the motivation behind the American Colonization Society and the Fugitive Slave Bill. The speaker stressing the irony that the U.S. will welcome fleeing Hungarian refugees to its shores but does not provide a welcome to the refugees of slavery who already reside here. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- British Library | | Title: | Hope for Africa. A Sermon on Behalf of The Ladies' Negro Education Society. | | Date Published: | 1853-06-10 | | Notes: | Lengthy sermon regarding the history of slavery, the abuses suffered by slaves in the U.S., and the necessity for evangelizing (and colonizing) Africa. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Douglass, H. Ford | | Newspaper: | Presscopy -- New York Historical Society -- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets | | Title: | Speech of H. Ford Douglass in Reply to Mr. J. M. Langston Before the Emigration Convention at Cleveland, Ohio. Delivered on the Evening of the 27th of August, 1854. | | Date Published: | 1854 | | Notes: | Speech in reply to John Mercer Langston who the speaker accuses of not being clear regarding his support of colonization. The speaker argues for immigration as a solution to the questions that arise regarding the nominally free people living in the U.S. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873 | | Newspaper: | Syracuse Journal | | Title: | Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society--First Day--Evening Session | | Date Published: | 1854-10-02 | | Notes: | Brief speech denouncing the goals of the American Colonization Society; and recounting a personal experience with prejudice. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903 | | Newspaper: | Liberator | | Title: | New England Colored Citizens' Convention | | Date Published: | 1859-08-26 | | Notes: | Brief speech denouncing the African Civilization Project. The speaker believed this was similar to the American Colonization Society project and just one more way of making money using African American labor. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882 | | Newspaper: | Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862) | | Title: | Enthusiastic Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Boston | | Date Published: | 1859-09-10 | | Notes: | Lively and debated speech in which the speaker defended his position on the colonization of Africa by free people of color. The speaker was for Colonization, but felt that his position on this effort had been misunderstood. (This speech is continued in speech 21063 and these two speeches are combined here.) |
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| Speaker or Author: | Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903 | | Newspaper: | Pine and Palm | | Title: | Discussion on Emigration | | Date Published: | 1861-08-03 | | Notes: | Speech denouncing the colonization efforts of the U.S. with regard to both the American Colonization Society and the African Civilization Society. |
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| Speaker or Author: | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 | | Newspaper: | Pine and Palm | | Title: | Lecture on Hayti | | Date Published: | 1861-08-31 | | Notes: | The speaker described the turbulent history of Hayti in detail stressing the battles and triumphs of its military heroes. He stressed that those seeking to immigrate to Hayti would find it rich in natural resources, especially cotton and coffee, which offered competition to slave-grown produce in the U.S. [This speech is a continuation of speech 24115, published in the June 15, 1861 issue of the Pine and Palm.] |
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| Speaker or Author: | Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 | | Newspaper: | African Repository | | Title: | Emigration, as Aid to Evangelization of Africa | | Date Published: | 1865-10 | | Notes: | Lengthy speech published in two issues of the African Repository newspaper (combined here into one speech). The speaker noted the similarities between the enslaved people in the U.S. and those enslaved in Israel and Egypt in ancient times. The speaker believed colonization of Africa offered the way to freedom. He emphasized the positive aspects of the new colonies in Monrovia and Liberia. |
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