Excerpt from The Early Negro Convention Movement With the period immediately following the Second War with Great Britain, begins a series of events which indicate a purpose of the nation to make the condition of the free man of color an inferior status socially and politically. That this was resisted at every step, revealed the national aim and pur pose. The protest against prescription in the Church which had asserted itself in several instances as at St. James P. E. And Bethel in Philadelphia, Zion in New York, culminated in the organization of two independent denominations - in 1816 at Philadelphia, in 1820 at New York; The American Colonization Society was' organized in 1816 with the hidden purpose of strengthening Slavery by ridding the country of its free black population. In 1820 the passage of the-missouri Compromise permitted the westward extension of slavery and as far north as 36° 3o'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.