Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Movement in Ohio to Deport the Negro: And Reprints of Two Pamphlets Upon Colonization
The total amount annually collected by these means steadily increased until 1830 when over was reported. The de cline in the amount contributed noticeable in the late thirties and early forties was due to the inroads of the abolitionists and to the panic of 1837. But the decade preceding the Civil War shows an annual contribution of over And through out the history of the whole movement funds were found to be more abundant than emigrants. No emigrants were sent until 1833 when 41 were transported. Since then only sixteen have gone, the last in 1902. This emigrant was Miss Ida M. Sharp of Cincinnati, who became a teacher in the Liberia schools.51 This will seem strange when we remember how well organized the movement was, how heavy the contributions were and how deep an interest in the subject prevailed in almost every section of the state. Yet this was the case, and when we recollect that the essential purpose of the whole propaganda was to remove the free blacks from the state it is obvious that considering the re sources placed at its disposal little was accomplished.
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