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Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society 97
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society 101
HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET A Memorial Discourse 107
GEORGE L. RUFFIN Crispus Attucks 125
P. B. S. PINCHBACK Address During Presidential Campaign of 1880 151
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL The Black Woman of the South 159
JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN An Open Letter to the Educational League of Georgia 173
JAMES MADISON VANCE In the Wake of the Coming Ages 177
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON At the Opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta 181 Robert Gould Shaw 205
CHRISTIAN A. FLEETWOOD The Negro as a Soldier 187
CHARLES W. ANDERSON The Limitless Possibilities of the Negro Race 211
WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH The Party of Freedom and the Freedmen 219
NATHAN F. MOSSELL The Teaching of History 227
GEORGE H. WHITE A Defense of the Negro Race 233
LEVI J. COPPIN The Negro's Part in the Redemption of Africa 243
FANNY JACKSON COPPIN A Plea for Industrial Opportunity 251
WILLIAM J. GAINES An Appeal to Our Brother in White 257
EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN The Political Outlook for Africa 263
W. JUSTIN CARTER The Duty and Responsibility of the Anglo-Saxon 265
THEOPHILUS G. STEWARD The Army as a Trained Force 277
D. WEBSTER DAVIS The Sunday-School and Church as a Solution of the Negro Problem 291
REVERDY C. RANSOM William Lloyd Garrison 305
JAMES L. CURTIS Abraham Lincoln 321
ABRAHAM WALTERS Abraham Lincoln and Fifty Years of Freedom 337
ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE On the Presentation of a Loving Cup to Senator Foraker 337
FRANCIS H. GRIMKE Equality of Rights for All Citizens 347
JAMES E. SHAPARD Is the Game Worth the Candle? 357
ROBERT RUSSA MOTON Some Elements Necessary to Race Development 367
GEORGE WILLIAM COOK The Two Seals 379
J. MILTON WALDRON A Solution of the Race Problem 389
J. FRANCIS GREGORY The Social Bearings of the Fifth Commandment 397
WILLIAM C. JASON Life's Morn 403
WILLIAM H. LEWIS Abraham Lincoln 409
ALICE M. DUNBAR David Livingstone 425
KELLY MILLER Education for Manhood 445
ROBERT T. JONES On Making a Life 455
ERNEST LYON Emancipation and Racial Advancement 461
JOHN C. DANCY The Future of the Negro Church 475
W. ASHBIE HAWKINS The Negro Lawyer 483
W. E. B. DUBOIS The Training of Negroes for Social Reform 491

THE PEOPLE OF HAYTI AND A PLAN OF EMIGRATION[1]
BY PRINCE SAUNDERS
[Note 1: Extracts from an address delivered at the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, Philadelphia, Pa., December 11, 1818.]
Respected Gentlemen and Friends:
At a period so momentous as the present, when the friends of abolition and emancipation, as well as those whom observation and experience might teach us to beware to whom we should apply the endearing appellations, are professedly concerned for the establishment of an Asylum for those Free Persons of Color, who may be disposed to remove to it, and for such persons as shall hereafter be emancipated from slavery, a careful examination of this subject is imposed upon us.
So large a number of abolitionists, convened from different sections of the country, is at all times and under any circumstances, an interesting spectacle to the eye of the philanthropist, how doubly delightful then is it, to me, whose interests and feelings so largely partake in the object you have in view, to behold this convention engaged in solemn deliberation upon those subjects employed to promote the improvement of the condition of the African race.
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Assembled as this convention is, for the promotion and extension of its beneficent and humane views and principles, I would respectfully beg leave to lay before it a few remarks upon the character, condition, and wants of the afflicted and divided people of Hayti, as they, and that island, may be connected with plans for the emigration of the free people of color of the United States.
God in the mysterious operation of his providence has seen fit to permit the most astonishing changes to transpire upon that naturally beautiful and (as to soil and productions) astonishingly luxuriant island.
The abominable principles, both of action and belief, which pervaded France during the long series of vicissitudes which until recently she has experienced, extended to Hayti, or Santo Domingo have undoubtedly had an extensive influence upon the character, sentiments, and feelings of all descriptions of its present inhabitants.
This magnificent and extensive island which has by travellers and historians been often denominated the "paradise of the New World," seems from its situation, extent, climate, and fertility peculiarly suited to become an object of interest and attention to the many distinguished and enlightened philanthropists whom God has been graciously pleased to inspire with a zeal for the promotion of the best interests of the descendants of Africa. The recent proceedings in several of the slave States toward the free population of color in those States seem to render it highly probable that that oppressed class of the community will soon be obliged to flee to the free States for protection. If