Whitelaw Reid: “I saw none of the negroes, either residing in Savannah or from the…”

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I saw none of the negroes, either residing in Savannah or from the country, who had any desire to be colonized away from their present homes.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid observes that freed African Americans in Savannah did not wish to be relocated from their homes.

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