Americans........... 1,015 Captured Africans..... 116 Converted heathen..... 353 in all............... 1,484 Present population estimated by President Roberts 80,000 Of these, are emigrants, captured Africans, etc., about....................................... 5,000 "The slave trade is suppressed on 400 miles of coast, excepting at one point. "Shipping owned in the colony, 14 vessels, of from 20 to 80 tons. "The exports annually, from the colony, are about $100,000. "David Christy, "_Agent Am. Col. Society_" --_The African Repository_, XXIV, 179-180. OXFORD, O., April, 1848. FOOTNOTES: [1] For a more detailed account of these settlements see Woodson's "The Education of the Negro, Prior to 1861," 243-244; and Hickok, "The Negro in Ohio," 85-88. [2] Mr. Powell, a teacher of Tuskegee, wrote this letter a few years ago while making a study of the Negroes in Ohio. A TYPICAL COLONIZATION CONVENTION CONVENTION OF FREE COLORED PEOPLE In another column we present a Circular Address to the free colored people of Maryland, calling a Convention to assemble in Baltimore the 25th of July, to take into consideration their present condition and future prosperity, and compare them with the inducements held out to them to emigrate to Liberia. This movement may be considered indicative of the change that is going on in the minds of the colored people respecting emigration. It is well known that heretofore they have been almost entirely insensible to the advantages which they must necessarily enjoy in a land peculiarly their own. They have not been entirely free from the control of bad counsellors.--Now they seem resolved to take the matter into their own hands, and to look at their present condition and future prospects in this country as a matter in which they are personally interested. When they do this in earnest, the result can be easily foreseen. They will desire to escape from their present anomalous condition, will yearn to be free and disenthralled, to have a land of their own, to have rights unquestioned by any superiors, where character, enterprise, education, and all that is lovely and noble in life shall combine to elevate and improve them and their children after them to the latest generation. --_African Repository_, XXVIII, 195-196. EMIGRATION OF THE COLORED RACE