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قراءة كتاب The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
BY
MARTIN ROBISON DELANY
PUBLISHED 1852.
CONTENTS
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
- PREFACE
- I Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered
- II Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States
- III American Colonization
- IV Our Elevation in the United States
- V Means of Elevation
- VI The United States Our Country
- VII Claims of Colored Men as Citizens of the United States
- VIII Colored American Warriors
- IX Capacity of Colored Men and Women as Citizen Members of Community
- X Practical Utility of Colored People of the Present Day as Members of Society—Business Men and Mechanics
- XI Literary and Professional Colored Men and Women
- XII Students of Various Professions
- XIII A Scan at Past Things
- XIV Late Men of Literary, Professional and Artistic Note
- XV Farmers and Herdsmen
- XVI National Disfranchisement of Colored People
- XVII Emigration of the Colored People of the United States
- XVIII "Republic of Liberia"
- XIX The Canadas
- XX Central and South America and the West Indies
- XXI Nicaragua and New Grenada
- XXII Things as They Are
- XXIII A Glance at Ourselves—Conclusion
- APPENDIX A Project for an Expedition of Adventure, to the Eastern Coast of Africa
Sincerely dedicated to the American People, North and South.
By Their Most Devout, and Patriotic Fellow Citizen, the Author
PREFACE
The author of this little volume has no other apology for offering it to the public, than the hurried manner in which it has been composed. Being detained in the city of New York on business, he seized the opportunity of a tedious delay, and wrote the work in the inside of one month, attending to other business through the day, and lecturing on physiology sometimes in the evening. The reader will therefore not entertain an idea of elegance of language and terseness of style, such as should rule the sentences of every composition, by whomsoever written.
His sole object has been, to place before the public in general, and the colored people of the United States in particular, great truths concerning this class of citizens, which appears to have been heretofore avoided, as well by friends as enemies to their elevation. By opponents, to conceal information, that they are well aware would stimulate and impel them on to bold and adventurous deeds of manly daring; and by friends, who seem to have acted on the principle of the zealous orthodox, who would prefer losing the object of his pursuit to changing his policy.
There are also a great many colored people in the United States, who have independence of spirit, who desire to, and do, think for themselves; but for the want of general information, and in consequence of a prevailing opinion that has obtained, that no thoughts nor opinions must be expressed, even though it would eventuate in their elevation, except it emanate from some old, orthodox, stereotyped doctrine concerning them; therefore, such a work as this,