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Martin Robison Delany
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664598721
Table of Contents
ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION IN LIBERIA
LIBERIA—CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, ETC.
VIII TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, ETC.
DISEASES OF THIS PART OF AFRICA, TREATMENT, HYGIENE, ALIMENT
PRESIDENT
" Cotton Is KING! In America " " Cotton Is BREAD! In England "
PAPER FOR INTENDING SETTLERS IN AFRICA
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS IN SCOTLAND
CLASSICS IN BLACK STUDIES EDITORIAL BOARD
CLASSICS IN BLACK STUDIES
Martin R. Delany
I
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
On or about the latter part of July, 1853, the following document was sent on, and shortly appeared in the columns of "Frederick Douglass' Paper," Rochester, N.Y., and the "Aliened American," published and edited by William Howard Day, Esq., M.A., at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., which continued in those papers every issue, until the meeting of the Convention:
Call For A National Emigration
Convention Of Colored Men
To be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of August, 1854
Men and Brethren: The time has fully come when we, as an oppressed people, should do something effectively, and use those means adequate to the attainment of the great and long desired end—do something to meet the actual demands of the present and prospective necessities of the rising generation of our people in this country. To do this, we must occupy a position of entire equality, of unrestricted rights, composing in fact, an acknowledged necessary part of the ruling element of society in which we live. The policy necessary to the preservation of this element must be in our favor, if ever we expect the enjoyment, freedom, sovereignty, and equality of rights anywhere. For this purpose, and to this end, then, all colored men in favor of Emigration out of the United States, and opposed to the American Colonization scheme of leaving the Western Hemisphere, are requested to meet in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, the 24th day of August, 1854, in a great National Convention, then and there to consider and decide upon the great and important subject of Emigration from the United