1850年代のF・ダグラス

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• The 1850s was the decade that the colonization movement was suddenly accelerated by the enactment of Fugitive Slave Law. This law made the condition of northern black people unstable and insecure. Henry Clay, the embodiment of colonization movement, began to set out the arguments for the American Colonization Society in the U. S. Senate and presented petitions that urged Congress to establish a line of government steamers to transport emigrants to West Africa free of charge. Douglass started to express his opinions against colonization in this tight situation. Referring to the Irish stock and the Indians, he contended that the black people were American born citizens and the rightful owners of the American soil. Before the Irish people came here, we had watered the soil with our tears and enriched it with our blood. We had fought and bled for our country. The Indians, the original owners of the soil, had gradually retreated from the Atlantic coast before the onward march of the white man until they had disappeared from the face of this country. But, not so with the black people, who had prospered under the great disadvantages. The white and the black had to fall or flourish together. Douglass contends that for the universal acknowledgment of the equality of races, the black people must show their practical equality, or equal attainments with the white. He admits, on the other hand, that the black people cannot exhibit their natural gifts on account of the hard discriminatory surroundings of America. He does not seem to have presented the effective means to solve this knotty problem.

• 神戸女学院大学の論文
• 2004-12-20

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• 清水 忠重

  神戸女学院大学

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