Letters on the relation of the white and African races and the necessity of the colonization of the latter

Letters on the relation of the white and African races in the United States, and the necessity of the colonization of the latter-addressed to representative men of the nation

Description:	This pamphlet is a collection of private letters written by James Mitchell as agent of the Indiana Colonization Society, on the subject of the African Colonization Movement, detailing the actions, policies and intellectual and theoretical foundation of the organization. It is addressed to Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, and Breckinridge, candidates for the 1860 U.S. presidential election. The purpose of the pamphlet is to privately communicate the aims of the movement to popular leaders and the future president. Overwhelmingly white, supporters of the Colonization Movement advocated for relocation of free people of color and emancipated slaves to Africa. Free black people voiced strong opposition to this movement, as did many abolitionists, who viewed the agenda of the Society as counterproductive for racial reconciliation and ineffective as a scheme to combat slavery. The author of this collection of correspondence, the Rev. James Mitchell (1818-1903), was a Methodist minister, an abolitionist and the Secretary of the American Colonization Society of Indiana. In this pamphlet, published in 1860, he lists his title as the Secretary of the Indiana State Board of Colonization. The pamphlet begins with a short introduction by Mitchell explaining why it deserves the attention of the candidates and why the movement requires their support. It contains extracts from the colonization report to the legislature of the state of Indiana (1852) titled the separation of the races just and politic, an 1857 letter authored by Mitchell addressed to President James Buchanan, and an 1849 letter to President Zachary Taylor.
Origin:	1860
Created By:	Mitchell, James S., 1818-1903
Publisher:	Bailhache and Baker (Springfield, Ill.)
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p1819coll6/id/63063
Collection:	Indiana Historical Print Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States
Geography:	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	Indiana State Board of Colonization Indiana Colonization Society Back to Africa movement Colonization African Americans--History African Americans--Indiana African Americans--Social conditions Emigration and immigration Liberia

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