Illustration for page 13, The American
Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, Vol. I, No. 4).
Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University.
Caption:
"If the free colored people were generally taught to read, it might
be an inducement to them to remain in this country.
WE WOULD OFFER THEM SUCH INDUCEMENT."—
Rev. Mr. Converse, a colonizationist, formerly of
N. H. now editor of the Southern Religious Telegraph.
In those parts of the country where the persecuting spirit of
colonization has been colonized, such exclusion has ceased.
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