Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party. Martin Robison Delany

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       Martin Robison Delany

      Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664598721

Table of Contents

       I

       POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

       II

       SUCCEEDING CONVENTIONS

       III

       HISTORY OF THE PROJECT

       IV

       ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION IN LIBERIA

       V

       LIBERIA—CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, ETC.

       VI DISEASES—CAUSE—REMEDY

       VII THE INTERIOR—YORUBA

       VIII TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, ETC.

       IX

       DISEASES OF THIS PART OF AFRICA, TREATMENT, HYGIENE, ALIMENT

       X MISSIONARY INFLUENCE

       XI

       WHAT AFRICA NOW REQUIRES

       XII

       TO DIRECT LEGITIMATE COMMERCE

       XIII

       COTTON STAPLE

       XIV

       SUCCESS IN GREAT BRITAIN

       AFRICAN AID SOCIETY

       PRESIDENT

       VICE-PRESIDENTS

       COUNCIL

       " Cotton Is KING! In America " " Cotton Is BREAD! In England "

       AFRICAN AID SOCIETY

       PAPER FOR INTENDING SETTLERS IN AFRICA

       XV

       COMMERCIAL RELATIONS IN SCOTLAND

       XVI

       THE TIME TO GO TO AFRICA

       XVII

       CONCLUDING SUGGESTIONS

       CLASSICS IN BLACK STUDIES EDITORIAL BOARD

       CLASSICS IN BLACK STUDIES

       Martin R. Delany

       Toyin Falola

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POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

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      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