[[return]]40. Cornish and Wright, "The Colonization Scheme Considered," 7.
[[return]]40a. African Repository, XXIV, 158.
[[return]]41. The African Repository, XXIV, 261.
[[return]]42. Reference is here made to the "Black Laws" of Ohio, passed to prevent the immigration of persecuted blacks from the South into that commonwealth.
[[return]]43. Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention of the Free People of Color.
[[return]]44. At this time the free blacks throughout the country were being urged by Abolitionists to redouble their attacks on the American Colonization Society. The Negroes merely needed to follow their lead.
[[return]]46. Having the idea that the colonization scheme meant the expatriation of the free Negroes, several of their eminent leaders and anti-slavery friends advocated the colonization of the colored people on the western public lands.
[[return]]45. The African Repository, XX, 316, 317.
[[return]]47. The African Repository, XXII, 265.
[[return]]48. Ibid., XXVI, 221.