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Against Wind and Tide. Ousmane K. Power-Greene
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isbn 9781479838257
Автор произведения Ousmane K. Power-Greene
Серия Early American Places
Издательство Ingram
Such an unequivocal statement against colonization may have discouraged Gurley, but he did not blame black convention attendees. Instead he focused his contempt upon Garrison for “poisoning their minds with Anti-Colonizationist ideology.” Ever since Garrison had first published the Liberator in 1831, Gurley had regarded Garrison’s invective against the ACS as the root cause of the negative opinions of the ACS held in black communities in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. But Gurley actually had it backwards: black leaders in Baltimore had first pushed Garrison to renounce the colonization ideology espoused by the ACS and fight against slavery and colonization. Garrison had himself been “poisoned” by black anticolonization.
Scholars for years have pointed out that Garrison’s popularity among black leaders was directly related to his stance on colonization. This popularity translated into subscriptions to Garrison’s Liberator newspaper, which by the early 1830s supplanted Freedom’s Journal as the most important newspaper for the cause of freedom in the North. While some blacks pooled their money for subscriptions, African American supporters with wealth and prestige sent large donations to fund the paper. James Forten, for example, paid for twenty-seven subscriptions and sent Garrison many words of encouragement. In fact, scholars note that white subscribers only comprised one-fourth of the Liberator’s readers, and Garrison actually ceased looking toward the white community for support. “Our white people are shy of the paper,” Garrison bemoaned in a letter to Simeon Jocelyn. “This ill success,” he explained, “is partly owing to colonization influence, which is directly and actively opposed to the Liberator.”23
It is very likely that Garrison was correct about Colonization Society members’ disdain for him, his paper, and the ideas he so freely shared with any audience that would invite him to speak. In fact, in issue after issue, the Liberator published anticolonization letters and essays by black people attacking the American Colonization Society, its local auxiliaries, and the principles that underpinned colonization. Often these letters were in response to pro-colonization editorials, or had been published in other newspapers and reprinted in the Liberator so that Garrison could alert his readers to the ongoing debate over colonization appearing within the pages of mainstream papers.
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