ABSTRACT
Probably no man realized more keenly than Wise the ill effects of slavery, and how it had retarded the development of his State and sec tion. He had, along with many men of his time, favored the African [American] Colonization Society, and while in Brazil had labored for the repression of the slave-trade there. In the Virginia Convention of 185051, he had told some plain, blunt truths in regard to the workings of the institution; and a man who declared that “black slaves make white
30 Barton H. Wise, The Life of Henry A. Wise (New York, 1899), 409413.
