id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.hn2guj Jay, William, An inquiry into the character and tendency of the American colonization, and American anti-slavery societies By William Jay 1835 .txt text/plain 70793 3730 65 To test the truth of these two assertions, let it be recollected, first, that no evidence existed that any other seminary for blacks was at this time contemplated in Connecticut; and that the free colored people are, as a class, sunk the second place, there are in the constitution, three talismanic words, which through the influence of existing prejudices have blinded the eyes of these good men to the practical operation of the Society on the colored people. " Resolved, that the Society, to effect its purpose, the removal of free people of color (not the slaves) through its seen that they are men indeed ; let the degrading associations which follow them be broken up by the actual improvement of their character as a people, and negro slavery must wither and die." New-Haven Christian Spectator for March, 1833. ./cache/hvd.hn2guj.pdf ./txt/hvd.hn2guj.txt