...Africa" peculiarly fitted them for improvement. "This is our home," they repeatedly asserted, "and this is our country. Beneath its sod lie the bones of our fathers ; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born, and here we will die." No grandiose...

...The notion of returning to Africa was deprecated. "This is our home," the free Negroes declared, "and this is our country. Beneath its sod lie the bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born, and here we will die." The Negroes wanted,...

...lot in the United States, a conviction underscored with yet another broadside against colonization: "This is our country. Beneath its sod lie the bones...fathers. . . . Here we were born, and here we will die." Several delegates advocated strategies of economic self-help, arguing, in the timeworn logic of racial...

...of all shall be properly acknowledged and appreciated. God hasten that time. This is our home, and this is our country. Beneath its sod lie the bones of our fathers: for it, some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born, and here we will die.11 At the root...

...Persons of Colour in 1831, when the forty-odd delegates unanimously resolved that: "This is our home, and this is our country. Beneath its sod lie the bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled and died. Here we were born, and here we will die." That was in the...

...colonization, and, in 1831, a convention of free Blacks meeting in New York asserted, "This is our home, and this is our country. Beneath its sod lie the bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were bom, and here we will die. " In 1787 the Abolition...