The problems and difficulties of colonization, admittedly great, were
seriously augmented by the active opposition of the extreme
pro-slavery men at the South and the Abolitionists at the North. Each
of these two antagonistic forces strenuously opposed the work of
colonization, the first because it facilitated eventual emancipation,
the second, among other reasons, because it rendered conditions more
tolerable and thus postponed the day of the universal and immediate
abolition of slavery.
In addition to the colonizations made through the aid of the
colonization societies, many Virginia slaveholders emancipated their
slaves and at their own expense colonized them in some of the free
states. A few instances will illustrate the custom and the
difficulties often encountered by these emancipators and their
ex-slaves.
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Footnote 80:
_Virginian History of African Colonization_, Slaughter, pp. 1-6.
Footnote 81:
_The African Repository and Colonial Journal_—Vol. VI, No. 1, p.
13.
Footnote 82:
_Liberia Bulletin. No. 16_—February, 1900, p. 21.
Footnote 83:
_Memoir of Bishop Meade_, Johns, 1867, p. 120.
Footnote 84:
_History of United States_, McMaster, Vol. IV, p. 65.
Footnote 85:
_Virginian History of African Colonization_, Slaughter, p. 100.