(RECONSTRUCTION) AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY Two Thousand

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(RECONSTRUCTION.) AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. Two Thousand Freedmen are Pleading for the Means of Emigrating to the Land from which their Ancestors were brought by Violence and Fraud to be Slaves of Strangers. Brochure. Oblong folio sheet, folded to form four 4to pages; creases where folded; short, closed tears at one of the folds. Washington, D.C.: Colonization Rooms, 1868

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prints letters of approval from african americans, including martin r. delany. The American Colonization Society's scheme to 'return' African Americans to Africa, was at one time reviled by abolitionists, both white and black. But the plan took hold once again following the emancipation of nearly four million people. While the Freedmen's Bureau helped, there were still vast numbers of displaced persons. Martin R. Delany was prominent among African Americans who supported emigration to Africa as a solution, having once traveled to the Niger Valley for a similar plan. Prefaced with a note reading "This appeal is made by order of the board of directors of the American Colonization Society. We earnestly solicit you to prepare an editorial commendation of it, or to give the enclosed slip an early insertion in your paper." rare, oclc locates only two copies of a similar, but not identical piece at library company of philadelphia and the american antiquarian society.