The Colonization Society hoped these negroes would use their skills to help improve life for the people of Africa.

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And,he said he thought that all the free Negroes of the North would come to fight slavery with him.

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Lincoln had said he opposed the decision, because it did not permit Negroes to enjoy the rights of citizenship.

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Illinois decided that Negroes will not be citizens, but that it will protect their life, property,and civil rights.

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Many whites refused to accept the fact that most free negroes did not want to go to Africa.

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The Confederate Congress passed a bill in March of eighteen sixty-five to accept Negroes as soldiers.

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It keeps from Negroes only political rights, and refuses to make Negroes equal to white men.

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In many places, it seemed impossible that negroes and whites could live together peacefully, in freedom.

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The new law said negroes accused of being runaway slaves could not have a jury trial.

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The activists said the freed Negroes would move north and take jobs away from whites.

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"But," he went on, "there is no reason in the world why Negroes should not have all the natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.

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However," he said, "this does not mean I believe that Negroes should be slaves.

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By eighteen fifty-four,nine thousand negroes from the United States had been sent to Liberia.

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It said government officials could send negroes to whoever claimed to own them.

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They also said the proclamation was an invitation for Negroes to murder whites.

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The Society's plan ended a cruel life of slavery for many negroes.

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In the North, thousands of free Negroes served in the Union army.

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They also killed many whites who tried to protect the Negroes.

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Forty-six representatives went to the convention thirty-four Negroes and twelve whites.

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In eighteen twenty, the Society began helping send negroes to Africa.

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Other states permitted negroes, but said they could not vote.

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They did not care about the constitutional rights of negroes.

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The negroes had grown up in the United States.

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It said negroes could not appeal such a decision.

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The negroes formed a government of their own.

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Some states closed their borders to negroes.

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Two Negroes were admitted, but only afterGovernor George Wallace had carried outhis symbolic threat to stand in the school house door.

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