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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... removed in any other way than by their 162 EXPATRIATION A BLOW TO THE SOUTH. own free choice. Here, as in the case of whoever wishes to seek a home in Liberia, the country would say: If you desire to go out from among us, go, and the blessing of Him who is the God of all the races of men, go with you! But you shall go as a freeman, as an emigrant, and not as an exile! Suppose then, before this general deportation is begun, it should be left to the negroes themselves to vote upon it, what do our Southern friends think their choice would be? They are not a venturesome and enterprising race, ready, like the sea-rovers of the North, to start off on great expeditions, and sail away to plant colonies on distant shores; and however they might listen with wonder to the fascinating story of the palm-groves and the free-and-easy life to which they were to be transported, when it came to the point of breaking away, they would draw back and linger about the old plantations, rather than seek new homes in some unknown "land of the sun." If the sanguine projectors of these grand schemes of expatriating a whole race, are surprised and disappointed that the negroes do not eagerly accept the offer, they may yet find their disappointment a blessing: for this removal of the blacks would be the greatest possible calamity to the South, as it would take away at a blow what is the first necessity in every civilized country: a vast laboring population--a race especially fitted to the climate and accustomed to the labor. Take the African from the rice and the cotton fields, and the sugar plantations, and in spite of the golden visions of Mr. Wade Hampton, a large part of Georgia and Mississippi and Louisiana would relapse into a howling wilderness. Thus expatriation would...Hide synopsis
Bright Skies and Dark Shadows (BiblioLife) – Trade paperback (2009)
by
Henry M Field
Trade paperback, BiblioLife 2009
English
332 pages
ISBN: 1103709127 ISBN-13: 9781103709120
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