The story of a renewed movement for “Negroes” to return to Africa

The story of a renewed movement for “Negroes” to return to Africa

The Negroes in this section of that State, principally those in Arkansas, have contracted the emigration fever again, and there is an Exodus of Black men to Africa. A dispatch from Mariana, Ark., says that colored people in that neighborhood are sacrificing what little property they have with the intention of going to the dark continent.
One car load has passed through Brinkley, enroute to New York, whence they intend to sail for their ultimate destination. It seems as if the scheme has been worked up by colored agents, who have been canvassing that section for some time, but for what purpose or in whose interests is not known. Many of the colored people owned small places, and several heads of stock, and were comparatively speaking, in good circumstances, but have sacrificed all for a few dollars to pay their way to New York. A prominent planter purchased nineteen hogs from one of these would-be emigrants for the small cum of $5.

“The story of a renewed movement for “Negroes” to return to Africa,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed April 24, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/67.