TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 334 Print image (41K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 334 Print image (41K) |
Remember that you are four million. Let "our" motto be resistance! Resistance! RESISTANCE! 77 After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Garnet, and many other fugitive blacks and abolitionists, felt that it was unsafe to remain in America, so "in 1850 he (along with many of his compatriots in similar circumstances), returned to England and attended the World Peace Conference. "78 By 1858 Garnet had become such a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement that "with the demise of the National Emigration Convention, he became the founder and president of the African Colonization Society." 79 In that same year, he had embraced emigration as a possible solution to the problem of race in America. His rationale was that he saw no future for blacks in the United States, so he came to believe that he. . ."would rather see a man free in Liberia than a slave in the United BStates,....and favored colonization to any country that promised freedom and enfranchisement to the Negro." 80 Another example of the injustices associated with the institution of slavery includes the life, trial, and imprisonment of the Reverend Samuel Green. Even though Green was less of a national figure than Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, or Henry Highland Garnet, the circumstances surrounding Green's life is an indication |