Free blacks are a greater nuisance than even slaves themselves.
Do we not all regard this mixed and intermediate population of free blacks, made up of slaves or their immediate descendants, as a mighty and a growing evil, exerting a dangerous and baneful influence on all around them?
Mr. WALN contended, that at least the House had the power of legislating on the state of free blacks as well as other people, and on the slave trade, much of which was still carrying on from Rhode Island, Boston and Pennsylvania.
Is it considered that the increase in the proportion of free blacks to slaves increases or diminishes the danger of insurrection?
Where the labourers consist of free blacks and of white men, what are the relative prices of their labour when employed about the same work?
In all the slave states the increase of the slaves is vastly more rapid than that of the whites or free blacks.
It is now carried on exclusively by the labor of free blacks.
Let the society answer in its own words:-- Free blacks are a greater nuisance than even slaves themselves.
Perier recalls articles in the Black Code of 1724, where explicit directions are given for the disposition of the children of free blacks.
One dispatch has the greatest interest for us, because of the expression "free blacks"[29] used.
When the people of Richmond, Virginia, registered their mild protest against it, about 3,000 free blacks of Philadelphia took higher ground.
In addition, free blacks in the United States had made application for passage to Sierra Leone.
The representatives who wished to grant Cuffe's request agreed that the Senate bill would be an invitation to free blacks to emigrate to Africa.
The frightful proportion which these elemental maladies have reached among the wretched free blacks of abolitiondom, does more to reveal the misery of their condition there, than volumes of description.
Still another evidence is found in the repugnance of those States to the influx of free blacks, and the stringent laws of some of them to prevent it.
Of free blacks in the North, one person in every five hundred and six was in one or the other of these sad conditions!
In this respect there is a union of sentiment between the masses, North and South, both opposing the introduction of free blacks.
I have stated that so much of the overture made by Congress to the States, as regards appropriations for colonizing abroad their free blacks, should be extended to the free, as well as the slave States.
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