Chapter XV

Moral condition of the free colored people in
United States; What have they gained by refusing to
accept Colonization? Abolition testimony on the
subject; Gerrit Smith; New York _Tribune_; Their
moral condition as indicated by proportions in
Penitentiaries; Census Reports; Native whites,
foreign born, and free colored, in Penitentiaries;
But little improvement in Massachusetts in seventy
years; Contrasts of Ohio with New England;
Antagonism of Abolitionism to free negroes. 149