"Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850" by the United States Congress House Committee on Naval Affairs, explores a plan to develop steamship routes to Africa. It details a proposal to encourage free African Americans to leave the United States for Liberia, driven by a desire to grow American trade and stop the slave trade. The report starts by explaining why Judge Joseph Bryan and others wanted steamships to take free blacks to Liberia, pointing out that America's navy was weak and needed to be stronger to protect business and help the American Colonization Society's goals.
Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. : $b With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society.
By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
A nineteenth-century proposal emerges to ship free African Americans to Liberia, expand the U.S. Navy, and boost commerce, all while grappling with the shadow of the slave trade.
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