Note (return) — Chapter VIII

To this sentiment formal expression was given in the measures adopted at various Negro meetings in the North. In 1817 the greatest excitement was occasioned by a report that through the efforts of the newly-formed Colonization Society all free Negroes were forcibly to be deported from the country. Resolutions of protest were adopted, and these were widely circulated.124 Of special importance was the meeting in Philadelphia in January, presided over by James Forten. Of this the full report is as follows: