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A Century of Negro Migration

CHAPTER IV
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113-115.] [Footnote 17: _The African Repository,_ XXI, p.

114.] [Footnote 18: _The African Repository,_ XVI, p.

116.] [Footnote 19: _The African Repository,_ XVI, p.

115.] [Footnote 20: _Ibid.,_ XVI, p.

116.] [Footnote 21: Speaking of this colony Kingsley said: "About eighteen months ago, I carried my son George Kingsley, a healthy colored man of uncorrupted morals, about thirty years of age, tolerably well educated, of very industrious habits, and a native of Florida, together with six prime African men, my own slaves, liberated for that express purpose, to the northeast side of the Island of Hayti, near Porte Plate, where we arrived in the month of October, 1836, and after application to the local authorities, from whom I rented some good land near the sea, and thickly timbered with lofty woods, I set them to work cutting down trees, about the middle of November, and returned to my home in Florida.


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