“Now let us ask what slavery is, as it stands between Africa, America, and the Supreme Judge of Nations. Is it not injustice, cruelty, robbery, and murder, reduced to a practical system? The dreadful answer is, that hosts of the disembodied spirits of unoffending Africans have taken their flight to eternity from the dark holds of American slave ships, and their last quivering groans have descended on high to call for vengeance on the murderous deed, that stained the earth and ocean with their blood. When we ask what slavery is, we are answered by the civil wars existing in Africa—by the thousands slain by the bands of their brethren—by the captive’s last look of anguish at his native shore—and by the blood and groans of the sufferers on the seas—by the sighs of men driven like herds of cattle to market—by the tears that furrow the woe-worn cheek of sorrow, as oppression moulders down the African’s system.” The Genius, IV, 73-4. [19] The branches were: The Greene Branch, Maryville, Bethesda, Hickory Valley, Nolachucky, Washington, French Broad, Dumplin Creek, Jefferson Creek, Holston, Sullivan, Powell Valley, Knoxville, Colter’s Station, Turkey Creek, Chestoody. The Genius, IV, 204. [20] The Genius, IV, 185. [21] Ibid., VI, 160. [22] Ibid., VII, 194. [23] The Genius, VIII, 93. [24] Minutes of American Convention for 1828, p. 27. [25] The Genius, XI, 3. [26] The Genius, I, 173. [27] Tennessee History Magazine, I, 272. [28] The Genius, IV, 69. [29] Goodspeed, 802. Cf. The Genius, VI, 177, which gives the following trustees: George Flower, James Richardson, Frances Wright, Camilla Wright, and Richardson Whitbey. [30] Goodspeed, 802. The trustees consisted of General Lafayette, William McClure, Robert Owen, Camille Wright, Cadwallader, D. Flanary, and James Richardson, who, together with their successors were to hold these lands in perpetual trust for the negro race, and were subject to the following limitations: (1) A school for colored children was always to be maintained. (2) All slaves emancipated from the society were to be sent out of the United States. (3) The Trustees were never to let their number fall below five, three of whom should constitute a quorum. (4) Coadjutors, with unanimous consent of trustees, might be appointed, if they had lived six months on the lands of Nashoba. [31] Goodspeed, 803. [32] The Genius, VI, 177. [33] The Genius, V, 366. [34] Goodspeed, 821. [35] The Genius, IV, 77. [36] Ibid., 76. [37] Ibid., 77. [38] The Genius, IV, 143. [39] Ibid., 77. [40] Goodspeed, 670. [41] The following recommendations were made in substance: 1. That all the manumission societies in the United States proclaim it as the Christian American Jubilee. 2. That the different societies encourage the keeping of the day, as a Jubilee, by publishing essays, songs, etc., showing the utility thereof. 3. That those societies celebrate the Fourth of July, next, with preaching, prayer, and singing as a Christian Jubilee.