Record Data
Source citation
“Negroes in Canada,” Ripley (OH) Bee, April 23, 1859, p. 1: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
Ripley Bee
Newspaper: Headline
Negroes in Canada
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
NEGROES IN CANADA. – The colored colony of Upper Canada have recently made a commendable movement, which promises to open for them a better prospect for the future. A convention, held at Chatham, has appointed a commission of five of its members to proceed to Africa immediately, with instructions to select a suitable site for the establishment of a new Industrial Colony, to which is proposed to remove the great body of the colored colony of Canada, as rapidly as possible.
