ABSTRACT
Free Negroes, particularly in the North, resisted colonization, as z7 in tended to drive them from their native homes, but it was a tragic illusion for ambitious slaves to whom it seemed to promise freedom, and whose masters were unaffected by its lure. The slave who wrote the following and other let ters to the American Colonization Society was serving his own people as a minister. His hope and enthusiasm was to no avail; no money materialized to purchase his bondage.
