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Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 29, 1862

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)

Although immigration to Hayti had been touted as a solution to the problem of what to do with former slaves, fewer and fewer African Americans are actually taking advantage of this option. The reality of this idea seems to have failed to live up to expectations.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Britain; Brooklyn Star; Colonization; emigration; Hayti; immigration; Pine and Palm; Port Au Prince; steamship Plantagenet; Sunday Mercury

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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