Title: Colored American - September 1, 1838
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Colored American (1837 - 1842)
The writer reports on activities of the Colonization Society in New Jersey as it attempts to persuade free African Americans to move to Africa.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; African Americans--Colonization; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: Civil rights; Colonization; Consitution; crusade; government; inhumanity; Liberia; New Jersey; persecution; politics; prejudice; R. J. Breckenridge; resolution; State Colonization Society Convention; Theodore Frelinghuysen
People: Breckenridge, R. J.; Frelinghuysen, Theodore
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers