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Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Latané, John Holladay, 1869-1932
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Publisher: Boston : New York : Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d social evil and looked forward to a not far distantemancipation. What to do with the emancipated slave, was the questionwhich none could solve. An earnest attempt was madeto colonize the free negroes in Africa by the American Colo-nization Society which was formed in 1816. The plan wasofficially endorsed by Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Tennes-see, and Vermont, and by the United States government,which extended its protection to Liberia, the territory on thewest coast of Africa selected by the Society as the site forits colony. Several thousand negroes were sent over to Li-beria, but large numbers of them succumbed to the Africanfevers and this deterred others from going, even had theSociety been able to raise the necessary funds. The coloniza-tion scheme was a noble effort on the part of Southern states-men and Northern philanthropists to solve the problem.Among the presidents of the Society were Monroe, Madison,Marshall, and Henry Clay, who was one of its most earnestpromoters. 308
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Slavery in the Territories 309 The movement against slavery was now world-wide. In1832, after a long and memorable contest, the British Par-liament abolished slavery in the British West ^j^^Indies and appropriated $100,000,000 to compen- abolitionsate the owners. Within the next twenty years ™°v«™^°*most of the other European countries abolished slavery intheir colonies. In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison founded inBoston the Liberator, a paper devoted to the immediate andunconditional abolition of slavery in the United States, andin 1833 the American Antislavery Society was organizedwith the same object in view. Since the Constitution pro-tected slavery, Garrison denounced the Union as a covenantwith death and the Constitution as an agreement withhell. The program of the abolitionists was to arouse public opin-ion at the North and to distribute literature among the slavesof the South in order to create in them a longing for liberty.Later the Underground Railroad was organized for

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