Compulsory colonization has always been a failure; but is it not probable that there will be a natural tendency of negroes to places where flourishing negro communities are already established, and the local government is mainly in their own hands?
Reid discusses the historical failures of compulsory colonization and the natural tendencies of negroes towards established communities.
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