2 quotes by Robert Finley (-1817),

Popular Quotes

Robert Finley

Free Blacks are unfavorable to our industry and morals.

He and other founders believed that Blacks freed from slavery would still suppress wages for whites and hurt industry. The possibility of intermarriage was also viewed as a moral degeneration. Approximately 15,000 Blacks chose to emigrate.

Robert Finley

The object to which attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color, residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient

Approximately 15,000 Blacks chose to emigrate.

All Quotes

About the Author

Robert Finley

Born:
Died: November 3, 1817
Nationality:
Profession:

Biography

Robert Finley was an American clergyman and educator who is known as one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, which established the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a place for free American Blacks.

ROBERT FINLEY