Note 21 — Chapter V · ANTI-SLAVERY METHODS.
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The following were the objects of the Colonization Society:
"1st. To rescue the free colored people of the United States from their political and social disadvantages.
"2d. To place them in a country where they may enjoy the benefits of free government, with all the blessings which it brings in its train.
"3d. To spread civilization, sound morals, and true religion through the continent of Africa.
"4. To arrest and destroy the slave-trade.
"5. To afford slave-owners who wish, or are willing, to liberate their slaves an asylum for their reception."