Stewart County GaArchives News.....African Emigration Craze January 17, 1895
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The Schley County News  Thursday, January 17, 1895  No. 3 January 17, 1895
The African emigration craze has broken out afresh in Southwest Georgia and in 
many counties hundreds of deluded negroes are selling their effects in order 
to get money to carry them to that land of milk and honey.  The sensible 
negroes of Americus and of this immediate section are taking no stock in the 
movement, but reports from Stewart county are to the effect that in that and 
adjoining counties, African emigration societies are being organized.  Every 
colored tenant on one Stewrat county farm has joined an emigration club with 
the avowed intention of going wherever and whenever their leaders say.  The 
blacks in that section are turning everything they have into money with the 
view to sailing for Liberia as soon as possible----Times Recorder.


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