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Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society [leaflet] by Romaine, B.F. [ Benjamin Franklin] - 1870

by Romaine, B.F. [ Benjamin Franklin]

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Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society [leaflet] by Romaine, B.F. [ Benjamin Franklin] - 1870

Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society [leaflet]

by Romaine, B.F. [ Benjamin Franklin]

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Columbus, OH: Ohio Colonization Society, 1870. 5x8.5 inch leaflet printed both sides, paper clip rust traces on verso, otherwise very good. OCLC lists one holding at Cornell. Text of a letter to George W. Gregg explaining the continued use of the term "colonization" given the changed conditions since the organization's founding; argues that funding Liberian development is a form of reparation for the debt incurred to Africa by the damages rendered by slavery, and should not be seen as a move to curtail the rights of freed slaves in the US by getting rid of them.
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  • Publisher Ohio Colonization Society
  • Place of Publication Columbus, OH
  • Date Published 1870
  • Keywords African American Nineteenth century Slavery Ohio Liberia

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Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]

by B.F. Romaine [Rev. Benjamin Franklin Romaine (1820-1874)]; [George Gregg]

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[Columbus, Ohio: np (1870)]. Broadsheet. Approx. 8¾ x 4¾ inches. Light soil; one soft crease line; tiny perimeter chip; Very Good. 1870 broadsheet issued by the Ohio Colonization Society defending the colonization of African-Americans in Liberia and writing passionately of those "...having been torn from their own land, the greater proportion of them to die in slave ships..." and further proclaiming the "'right'" of those Blacks who wished to "...go to their fatherland, Africa, and to live and labor there for the firmer establishment of a negro nationality..." The text comprises a strongly-worded letter from Rev. B.F. Romaine, Corresponding and Financial Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society, to George W. Gregg of Circleville, Ohio. The society was founded in 1827 to encourage Black Ohioans to emigrate to Africa. Now in the post-Civil War, "emancipation" era, Romaine is defensive about the continuing use of the term "colonization." He writes: "The old term "Colonization" has been continued in… Read More
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