Frederick Douglass' Paper last advertisement for 1854 Emigration Convention
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Frederick Douglass' Paper last advertisement for 1854 Emigration Convention
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1854 Emigration Convention
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Colored Emigration Convention.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1854.
The Colored Emigration Convention closed its labors to-night; after a session of three days. About one hundred delegates from the States and Canada were present. The Rev. W. C. Monroe, of Michigan, acted as President. The Convention adopted a platform favorable to the segregation of the colored race, to establish a Board of Commissioners, and reported a plan for issuing a quarterly periodical, to be called The Colored American Quarterly.—Cor. New York Tribune.
The above is all that we have seen of the doings of our Emigration friends at Cleveland. They have declared themselves in favor of two measures—a Board of Commissioners, and a quarterly periodical. Where this quarterly periodical (whether in the United States, or Canada, Central America,
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1854.
The Colored Emigration Convention closed its labors to-night; after a session of three days. About one hundred delegates from the States and Canada were present. The Rev. W. C. Monroe, of Michigan, acted as President. The Convention adopted a platform favorable to the segregation of the colored race, to establish a Board of Commissioners, and reported a plan for issuing a quarterly periodical, to be called The Colored American Quarterly.—Cor. New York Tribune.
The above is all that we have seen of the doings of our Emigration friends at Cleveland. They have declared themselves in favor of two measures—a Board of Commissioners, and a quarterly periodical. Where this quarterly periodical (whether in the United States, or Canada, Central America,
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1854.OH-08.24.CLEV
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“Frederick Douglass' Paper last advertisement for 1854 Emigration Convention,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/1290.