THE CONDITION, ELEVATION ***
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THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
Published 1852.
CONTENTS
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
Preface. 35
Chapter I. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered 41
Chapter II. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States 44
Chapter III. American Colonization 58
Chapter IV. Our Elevation in the United States 63
Chapter V. Means of Elevation 67
Chapter VI. The United States Our Country 74
Chapter VII. Claims of Colored Men as Citizens of the United States 75
Chapter VIII. Colored American Warriors 91
Chapter IX. Capacity of Colored Men and Women as Citizen Members of Community 106
Chapter X. Practical Utility of Colored People of the Present Day as Members of Society--Business Men and Mechanics 113
Chapter XI. Literary and Professional Colored Men and Women 128
Chapter XII. Students of Various Professions 148
Chapter XIII. A Scan at Past Things 151
Chapter XIV. Late Men of Literary, Professional and Artistic Note 155
Chapter XV. Farmers and Herdsmen 158
Chapter XVI. National Disfranchisement of Colored People 161
Chapter XVII. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States 175
Chapter XVIII. "Republic of Liberia" 177
Chapter XIX. The Canadas 189
Chapter XX. Central and South America and the West Indies 193
Chapter XXI. Nicaragua and New Grenada 202
Chapter XXII. Things as They Are 204
Chapter XXIII. A Glance at Ourselves--Conclusion 211
Appendix. A Project for an Expedition of Adventure, to the Eastern Coast of Africa 221
_Sincerely dedicated to the American People, North and South._
_By Their Most Devout, and Patriotic Fellow Citizen, the Author_
PREFACE
The author of this little volume has no other apology for offering it to the public, than the hurried manner in which it has been composed. Being detained in the city of New York on business, he seized the opportunity of a tedious delay, and wrote the work in the inside of one month, attending to other business through the day, and lecturing on physiology sometimes in the evening. The reader will therefore not entertain an idea of elegance of language and terseness of style, such as should rule the sentences of every composition, by whomsoever written.
His sole object has been, to place before the public in general, and the colored people of the United States in particular, great truths concerning this class of citizens, which appears to have been heretofore avoided, as well by friends as enemies to their elevation. By opponents, to conceal information, that they are well aware would stimulate and impel them on to bold and adventurous deeds of manly daring; and by friends, who seem to have acted on the principle of the zealous orthodox, who would prefer losing the object of his pursuit to changing his policy.
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