Footnote 44: See Moffat’s South African Missions. Footnote 45: Missionary Herald, for December, 1853, and January, 1854. Footnote 46: Missionary Herald, February, 1853. Footnote 47: Recent developments at Sierra Leone, have proved, beyond all question, that certain persons, in that English Colony, have long been secretly engaged in the slave-trade. There is reason to believe, however, that these wars have been excited by the English scheme of restocking their West India plantations by purchasing _emigrants_, at $10 per head, from the African chiefs. See the letter of President Roberts, on this subject, in Appendix. Footnote 48: American Missionary, March, 1853. Footnote 49: Barbarism is the ignorance of infancy prolonged into adult age. This definition will convey a true idea of its relations to moral and religious truth. Footnote 50: The German term for farmers. Footnote 51: Missionary Magazine and Chronicle, October, 1853. Footnote 52: Report of Annual Meeting, May, 1853. Footnote 53: Baird’s Retrospect, pages 400–2. Footnote 54: The comparative condition of the missions in West Africa, South Africa, and the West Indies, according to Baird’s Retrospect for 1850, was as follows: W. Africa. S. Africa. W. Indies. Missionaries, 93 214 283 Assistant Missionaries, 170 155 36 Native Assistants, 75 8 349 Communicants, 9,625 12,116 75,503 Schools, 152 60 160 Pupils, 13,631 20,102 11,042 Footnote 55: In England. Footnote 56: United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United Sta, by David Christy