Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 1: December 15, 1842
Too much credit cannot be given to the gentlemen who have set many of those people free. For instance, Mr. Lynch, of Lynchburg, Va. He set 18 people free (who were taken out for the American Colonization Society, ) paid their passage to Africa, an expense of seven or eight hundred dollars, and supplied them well with clothing, mechanical tools, farming utensils, Sac. Another - Mr. Bernard Dean, a farmer in moderate circumstances, in Howard District, A. A. Co. Offered freedom to his whole family, on condi tion that they would go to Cape Palmas. Ten availed themselves of his offer, five adults with their five children. These he supplied abundantly with clothing and agricultural implements, in fact almost stripping his own house to do so. He came to the city with them and waited one week to see them embark, although for years previous he had not slept from under his own roof. Nothing could be more affecting than the parting of this old gentleman with his people. But he has the grand consolation of knowing that he has done the best and all that he could do, both for them and himself.
Such are the deeds of southern slaveholders - and a home is created for these liberated bondmen, through the liberality of the slaveholding state of Maryland.
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