This is a list of common reasons on why We as African Americans would like to emigrate outside of the United States to other territories such as Africa, Canada, and even Latin America. Since we didn’t voluntarily emigrate to this country but rather by brute force and shackles (citation is in the Letter to Cincinnati), we feel as though this is the only option for us as African Americans to get an equal chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which are our unalienable rights granted to us and shouldn’t be taken away from us.
Major reasons of dissatisfaction…
1. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. How can we ever be free if we are constantly threatened of being captured even if we are TRULY free African Americans. (citation is the Fugitive Slave Act).
2. Even in the “so called” free states we are denied suffrage(right to vote), and even up until 1848 in Ohio and Pennsylvania we were denied our basic rights in the Courts of Common Pleas.(citation Provincial Freeman – Wesely W. Tate).
3. The states of Indiana and Illinois which are “supposed” to be free states even started to pass stringent laws, forbidding us to immigrate into them. (citation Provincial Freeman – Wesely W. Tate).
4. Even in the Constitution we are referred to as 3/5ths of a person. ( citation is in the Constitution. Article 1 – Section 3).
5. There has been segregation in the communities that ban us from community related areas such as inns, taverns, theaters, resorts, etc. (citation is from our notes from class).
6. There have been separate laws made for Blacks known as the Black Codes, which vary on a state and local level which take away our civil rights and liberties as a person. (citation is from our notes from class)
Reasons for emigration.
Additional points on discrimination and oppression of rights of African Americans
Racism, discrimination, and overall rights of African Americans at this time, are 3 important reasons for emigrating elsewhere. African Americans chances of gaining total freedom and equality seems unlikely to happen any time soon. With the slave system prospering in the south and with the economy so strong based on slavery, 1/3 of the south’s population is still in bondage with no end in near sight. Oppression of Africans in the North has increased steadily as the black population has continued to grow.
We have voting restriction, and are excluded from the justice system. Constant and new threats of laws being passed in the south prohibiting manumissions, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act being passed in 1850. This meant that any run-away slaves, as well as any free Blackman who could not produce papers proving his freedom was not safe from possibly being forced back into a life of oppression. These are reasons enough to emigrate to an area where we will not be oppressed and have every opportunity as free individuals to create a better life for ourselves and our families. http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/topic.cfm?migration=4&topic=2
We can “Contribute to the world’s well-being and civilization by increasing commerce, trade, and missionary work. To meet this obligation, he calls for the “cultivation” of the nation’s citizens and the development of its natural resources” (African-American Pamphlet Collection at the Library of Congress).
There is a proposition in congress to build a passage between United States and Liberia to transport all the African Americans and that is funded by ACS. That is being accepted well by the African American society. We were brought here by force I see no reason for us to stay. (82 Alabama Letter)
The people of Liberia have created their own government (163 Delaney).
The laws of the Liberian government provide a school in every town (167 Delaney).
We can assist with production problems which include poor planting practices; a lack of good planting equipment; pest and disease infestation; and poor harvest handling practices.
Instead of waiting in the United States for us African Americans to gain our freedom we can just simply go back to our origin were we are accepted, and no one knows when the African Americans will ever get freedom in the United States.
Liberia became an independent nation in 1847; Joseph Jenkins Roberts – a merchant who had emigrated from Virginia twenty years earlier – was elected president. Proving that Liberia is open to outsiders and there would be no problems in migrating to Liberia. And the countries first university was established when Roberts became president. (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/timeline/time2.html
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This is a list of common reasons on why We as African Americans would like to emigrate outside of the United States to other territories such as Africa, Canada, and even Latin America. Since we didn’t voluntarily emigrate to this country but rather by brute force and shackles (citation is in the Letter to Cincinnati), we feel as though this is the only option for us as African Americans to get an equal chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which are our unalienable rights granted to us and shouldn’t be taken away from us.
Major reasons of dissatisfaction…
1. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. How can we ever be free if we are constantly threatened of being captured even if we are TRULY free African Americans. (citation is the Fugitive Slave Act).
2. Even in the “so called” free states we are denied suffrage(right to vote), and even up until 1848 in Ohio and Pennsylvania we were denied our basic rights in the Courts of Common Pleas.(citation Provincial Freeman – Wesely W. Tate).
3. The states of Indiana and Illinois which are “supposed” to be free states even started to pass stringent laws, forbidding us to immigrate into them. (citation Provincial Freeman – Wesely W. Tate).
4. Even in the Constitution we are referred to as 3/5ths of a person. ( citation is in the Constitution. Article 1 – Section 3).
5. There has been segregation in the communities that ban us from community related areas such as inns, taverns, theaters, resorts, etc. (citation is from our notes from class).
6. There have been separate laws made for Blacks known as the Black Codes, which vary on a state and local level which take away our civil rights and liberties as a person. (citation is from our notes from class)
Reasons for emigration.
Additional points on discrimination and oppression of rights of African Americans
Racism, discrimination, and overall rights of African Americans at this time, are 3 important reasons for emigrating elsewhere. African Americans chances of gaining total freedom and equality seems unlikely to happen any time soon. With the slave system prospering in the south and with the economy so strong based on slavery, 1/3 of the south’s population is still in bondage with no end in near sight. Oppression of Africans in the North has increased steadily as the black population has continued to grow.
We have voting restriction, and are excluded from the justice system. Constant and new threats of laws being passed in the south prohibiting manumissions, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act being passed in 1850. This meant that any run-away slaves, as well as any free Blackman who could not produce papers proving his freedom was not safe from possibly being forced back into a life of oppression. These are reasons enough to emigrate to an area where we will not be oppressed and have every opportunity as free individuals to create a better life for ourselves and our families.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/topic.cfm?migration=4&topic=2
reasons to go to Liberia:
We can “Contribute to the world’s well-being and civilization by increasing commerce, trade, and missionary work. To meet this obligation, he calls for the “cultivation” of the nation’s citizens and the development of its natural resources” (African-American Pamphlet Collection at the Library of Congress).
There is a proposition in congress to build a passage between United States and Liberia to transport all the African Americans and that is funded by ACS. That is being accepted well by the African American society. We were brought here by force I see no reason for us to stay. (82 Alabama Letter)
The people of Liberia have created their own government (163 Delaney).
The laws of the Liberian government provide a school in every town (167 Delaney).
We can assist with production problems which include poor planting practices; a lack of good planting equipment; pest and disease infestation; and poor harvest handling practices.
Instead of waiting in the United States for us African Americans to gain our freedom we can just simply go back to our origin were we are accepted, and no one knows when the African Americans will ever get freedom in the United States.
Liberia became an independent nation in 1847; Joseph Jenkins Roberts – a merchant who had emigrated from Virginia twenty years earlier – was elected president. Proving that Liberia is open to outsiders and there would be no problems in migrating to Liberia. And the countries first university was established when Roberts became president. (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/timeline/time2.html