Buxton to George Thompson, about his objection to the African Colonization Society on the grounds that its proposals were inadequate to accomplish the suppression of the slave trade and it tended to force exile from their native land on liberated Black people, though he had approved its plan to bring educated African people into African communities from the outset, 27 Dec 1839
He adds that, having read the life of Ashmun, he was favourably impressed by his motives and that he had used his evidence and that of others of his group as authorities on the productivity of Africa and on its people. He mentions that the Slave Trade had been just published in America and that he hoped that when The Remedy had been published, equal attention would be paid to it by the friends of Black people in that country. He sends his regards to E.M. Davis, who had given him the opportunity to state his views on the American African Colonization Society. (Copy.)
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- Creation: 27 Dec 1839
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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 444 Vol. 19, pp. 43-44
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