African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United States, an Indispensable Auxiliary to African Missions.: A LectureChristy, David
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African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United States, an Indispensable Auxiliary to African Missions.: A Lecture
Christy, David
African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa; Missions -- Africa
The Bishop of Cape Town, in speaking of the disastrous effects of the
late Kaffir war, has recently expressed the opinion, that, in less than
five years, another equally terrible in its results, in all probability,
will occur between the whites and the Zulus; and as a consequence of the
large number of Europeans who are mixing among them, and whose chief
object appears to be their own enrichment, at the expense of that
people.
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, which is organized on strictly
Anti-Slavery principles, has a mission at Kaw-Mendi, 50 or 60 miles
north-west of Liberia, which belongs to the class of native missions.
This mission had its origin in the return of the “Amistad Slaves,” to
their native country, in 1842. The Rev. Mr. Raymond went out at the head
of this mission. On reaching Africa, he found wars everywhere prevailing
to such an extent, that he could not reach the Mendi country, to which
these people belonged, and was forced to settle at Kaw-Mendi, but 40
miles from the coast. The continuation of these wars greatly hindered
the progress of the mission, as long as Mr. Raymond lived, and for more
than a year after his successor, the Rev. George Thompson, took charge
of the station, in 1848. Mr. Thompson thus became painfully familiar
with African warfare; and represents it as having been conducted with
the utmost cruelty—whole towns being depopulated and multitudes driven
to the coast and sold to the slave-traders of the Gallinas. Mr. Thompson
was in Africa about two years and a half, and was also greatly hindered
by these wars in his efforts to instruct the people; until, happily, the
British squadron forcibly suppressed the traffic in slaves, at Grand
Cape Mount and the Gallinas, and thus put an end to the market. The
supplies of European merchandise being thus cut off from the
slave-trading kings, along the coast, they were induced to sell their
territory to President Roberts, and place themselves under the
jurisdiction of Liberia. One of the stipulations in the treaties,
requires the Liberians to establish trading posts in the territory, for
the supply of goods to the native population; that they might no longer
have any excuse for continuing the slave-trade.
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