Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana — John Shaqi
Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British GuianaHildreth, Richard
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Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana
Hildreth, Richard
African Americans -- Colonization; Guyana
I am persuaded that it is only necessary to make the capabilities of
our magnificent colony known, to insure us a large influx of emigrants."
Many other speeches were also made declaratory of the anxiety of the
proprietory body to encourage Immigration. But as this communication
has already exceeded the ordinary limits of a letter, I will not
trespass longer on your patience, nor will I detain you by making any
observations on the foregoing extracts. I offer them to you and your
friends as evidence in support of the declaration I publicly made at
Baltimore, that the free colored people of America will derive great
and substantial advantages by emigrating to British Guiana. I am, dear
sir, your most obedient servant,
EDWARD CARBERY.
MR. GREENE, CHAIRMAN, &c. _Baltimore._
No. II.
On the fourteenth page of the preceding pamphlet is an extract from the
_Birbice Advertiser_, giving an account of the purchase of _Northbroke_
by a number of emancipated laborers. The _Guiana Chronicle_ of Monday,
Dec. 9th, just received, contains additional particulars of that
purchase, which appears to have been made not by a dozen persons as
stated in the _Birbice_ paper, but by about _seventy_.
The following are extracts from an address presented by the purchasers
to the Governor of the Colony.
_To His Excellency_ HENRY LIGHT, _Esquire, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of British Guiana_.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
SIR,-- * * * * * *
On the 7th day of this month we jointly purchased, from the Executors
of the late Hugh Rogers, Esquire, for the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars,
his Plantation called "Northbroke," containing about 500 acres of land;
and as we have been enabled to pay the purchase money principally from
out of our savings since we obtained our freedom, we cannot refrain
from expressing how thankful, how grateful we are, how indebted we
ever shall be, to all those noble-minded individuals who were mainly
instrumental in procuring and giving us that freedom.
* * * * * * *
We know that to the individual act of her Majesty, we owe the
happiness of having you here, as our Ruler and Governor, in her name.
Your Excellency is too exalted in station to listen to praise and
commendation, and _we_ too humble to offer them; but we may be allowed
to state, with thankfulness, that every act of your Excellency's
administration, with reference to us, and to the body to which we
belong, has been marked with kindness, benevolence, liberality and
justice. And we humbly pray The Almighty Ruler of all Men, that your
Excellency may be long spared to us, to afford us your protection.
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