CHAPTER VI.. Anti-Slavery Efforts of Free Negroes.

ANTI-SLAVERY EFFORTS OF FREE NEGROES.

Intelligent Interest of Free Negroes in the Agitation Movement.--"First Annual Convention of the People of Color" held at Philadelphia.--Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a College for Young Men of Color.--Provisional Committee appointed in each City.--Conventional Address.--Second Convention held at Benezet Hall, Philadelphia.--Resolutions of the Meeting.--Conventional Address.--The Massachusetts General Colored Association.--Convention of Anti-slavery Women of America at New York.--Prejudice against admitting Negroes into White Societies.--Colored Orators.--Their Eloquent Pleas for their Enslaved Race 61