Chapter XIV

THE INDUSTRIAL, SOCIAL, AND MORAL CONDITION OF THE FREE
PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, HAYTI, AND IN
THE UNITED STATES; AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE EXERTED
ON PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN RELATION TO SLAVERY, AND TO THEIR
OWN PROSPECTS OF EQUALITY WITH THE WHITES.

Effects of opposition to Colonization on Liberia;
Its effects on free colored people; Their social
and moral condition; Abolition testimony on the
subject; American Missionary Association; Its
failure in Canada; Degradation of West India free
colored people; American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society; Its testimony on the dismal condition of
West India free negroes; London _Times_ on same
subject; Mr. Bigelow on same subject; Effect of
results in West Indies on Emancipation; Opinion of
Southern Planters; Economical failure of West India
Emancipation; Ruinous to British Commerce; Similar
results in Hayti; Extent of diminution of exports
from West Indies resulting from Emancipation;
Results favorable to American Planter; Moral
condition of Hayti; Later facts in reference to the
West Indies; Negro free labor a failure; necessity
of education to render freedom of value; Franklin's
opinion confirmed; Colonization essential to
promote Emancipation. 132