Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

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Author

Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

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E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

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DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Liberia -- Description and travel

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eBook-No.

22118

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Release Date

July 22, 2007

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NIGER VALLEY EXPLORING PARTY — by
2. 2.Martin R Delany — Published 1861
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.I — POLITICAL MOVEMENTS — Call For A National Emigration Convention Of Colored Men To be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of August, 1854 — Organization of the National Board of Commissioners — Departments
5. 5.II — SUCCEEDING CONVENTIONS — GENERAL BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — Other Members
6. 6.III — HISTORY OF THE PROJECT — A Grand Scheme for the Colored Race — African Commission — The Niger Valley Exploring Party — EXPEDITION TO AFRICA To Promote the Cultivation of Cotton and Other Products of Slave-Labor by Emigrants from America
7. 7.IV — ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION IN LIBERIA — Arrival in Africa — Monrovia — Reception — Public Lecture — Missionary Greeting — Correspondence — Reception Meeting at Palmas
8. 8.V — LIBERIA—CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, ETC. — Territory, Climate — Temperature — Comparative Temperature Bees — Soil, Stone, Minerals, Productions — Domestic Animals, Fowls, Goats, Sheep, Swine, Cattle — Horses, None. Why? — Horse Feed, Pasturage, Hay — No Cultivated Farms—No Shelter for Horses — No Horses; Why, and Why Not — Exploration. Farms, Sugar, Coffee — Schools — Churches Missionaries — Business, Professions, Theology, Medicine, Law — Council — Public Affairs, Municipal and Public Improvements — The Capital No City — Self-Reliance, Ways and Means — Executive Munificence — Official and Personal Favors — Settlement and Sites of Towns — Buildings — Public Meeting
9. 9.VI DISEASES—CAUSE—REMEDY — First Symptoms — Second Stage of Symptoms — Third Stage of Symptoms — Its Effects — Recovery — Diseases — Native Diseases, Peculiar Character in Liberia — Causes — Complication — Remedies, Natural and Artificial — Treatment — Locality
10. 10.VII THE INTERIOR—YORUBA — Coasting. Cape Coast Castle, Bight of Benin — Explorations. Abbeokuta — Towns from Abbeokuta — Return to Lagos
11. 11.VIII TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, ETC. — Topography, Climate — First Plateau and Second Plateau, or Table Lands — Soil — Stone Formation — Minerals, Iron, Copper, Zinc — Productions Timber — Medical Productions — Fruits — Agricultural Products — Palm Oil — Palm Trees Cultivated. Camwood. Ivory — Indian Corn or Maize, Peas, Beans, Ginger, Pepper, Arrowroot, &c — Kitchen Vegetables — Potatoes, None — Manufactories Iron, Brass, Glass — Inhabitants — How Received by Them — Native Estimate of Civilized Educated Men — Influence of Civilization—Native Demonstration — Official Transactions — Treaty — Executive Council, and Ratification of the Treaty — Native Confidence; Hopes in Educated Blacks; Princess Tinuba — Royal Deference to Black Men — Domestic Animals; Fowls, Chickens, Ducks, Muscovy, Turkeys Swine; Common, Guinea — Goats, Sheep — Cattle—Mandingo and Golah — Horses; Aku, Bornou — Aku, or Yoruba Horse — Bornou, or Soudan Horse — Game; Quadrupeds — Wild Fowl — Markets, and Domestic Habits of the People — Native Houses and Cities — Conjugal and Filial Affection. Activity of Children — Population of Monrovia and the State — Canine and Feline — Slavery — How Slaves Are Obtained
12. 12.IX — DISEASES OF THIS PART OF AFRICA, TREATMENT, HYGIENE, ALIMENT — Diseases, Face of the Country, Spring Water — To Keep Water Cool. Kind of Vessels — Cool Water — To Keep the Cloth Wet. Apparatus — Atmosphere — Kinds of Disease — Guinea Worm — What Is Guinea Worm? — Treatment of Diseases—Diarrhoea — Dysentery — Fever Antidote — Regimen — Hygiene—Eating — Coffee, Air, Fruits — Drinks — Bathing — Early Rising—Breezes — Never Sultry — Dress, Avoid Getting Wet — Sanitary Measures — Ventilation of Houses — Test of Night Air — Test of Exposure — Improved Window and Door Ventilation — Sanitary Effects of Ants—Termites, and Drivers — Drivers — How They Travel — How to Drive Them Out of the Houses — How to Destroy Them — Their Pugnacious and Martial Character — Cesspools — Wild Beasts and Reptiles
13. 13.X MISSIONARY INFLUENCE — Protestant Missionaries — Influence of Roman Catholic Religion in Favor of Slavery — Influence of Protestant Religion against Slavery, and in Favor of Civilization — Kindness of Missionaries and Personal Acknowledgments — Hints to Those to Whom They Apply — Changing Names
14. 14.XI — WHAT AFRICA NOW REQUIRES — What Missionary Labor Has Done — How It Was Done — The Result, If Not Timely Aided by Legitimate Means — Missionary Aid, Christianity and Law or Government Must Harmonize, to Be Effective of Good — Like Seeks Like — Natives Desire Higher Social Relations — Native Doubts Respecting the Eventual Good Effects of Missionary Labor — The Proper Element as Progressive Missionary Agencies — Precaution against Error in the First Steps — National Character Essential to the Successful Regeneration of Africa
15. 15.XII — TO DIRECT LEGITIMATE COMMERCE — First Steps in Political Economy — The Basis of a Great Nation—National Wealth — Advantageous Location — Metropolis — Trade of Lagos — Harbor Improvements — Religious and Philanthropic means — Stopping the Slave Trade — Means of Doing It — Subsidizing the King of Dahomi
16. 16.XIII — COTTON STAPLE — Natural Elements to Produce Cotton — Africans the Only Reliable Producers — Serious Contingencies and Uncertainty in American Cotton Supply — Superior Advantages of Africa over All Other Countries in the Production of Cotton — Importance of the African Race in the Social and Political Relations of the World — The African Race Sustains Great Britain — The Negro Race Sustains the Whites—Able to Sustain Themselves — Home Trade — Coast Trade — Domestic Trade, Corn Meal, Guinea Corn and Yam Flour — Candy — Soap — Coloring and Dying. Making Indigo — Weaving and Cloth Manufacturing; Leather — A Fixed Policy for the Blacks, as a Fundamental Necessity — Internal Medium of Communication. Navigable Rivers — Native Government
17. 17.XIV — SUCCESS IN GREAT BRITAIN — Departure from Africa and Arrival in England — First Meeting — Origin of the African Aid Society — What Black Men Want — Primary Objects of the African Aid Society
18. 18.AFRICAN AID SOCIETY — 7, [8] ADAMS STREET, STRAND, W. C., LONDON — PRESIDENT — VICE-PRESIDENTS — COUNCIL — STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND RULES — " Cotton Is KING! In America " " Cotton Is BREAD! In England " — Fugitive-Aid Society in Canada — Heathen and Slave-Trade Horrors — AFRICAN AID SOCIETY — PAPER FOR INTENDING SETTLERS IN AFRICA
19. 19.XV — COMMERCIAL RELATIONS IN SCOTLAND — Commercial Relations — Business Integrity — Public Endorsement — From the Daily Chronicle — From the Glasgow Herald — From the Leeds Mercury (England) — Character of Commercial Relations — Reliable Arrangements
20. 20.XVI — THE TIME TO GO TO AFRICA — Caution against Danger — Safety in Landing — A Tender — Rainy Season — Drizzling Rain, Sudden Showers — Tornadoes — Summer — Winter — Harmattans
21. 21.XVII — CONCLUDING SUGGESTIONS — Native Mariners — The Fever—Stages Of — Cold Stage — Kneading or Friction-Bath. Hot Stage — Lime-Bath — Soda — Sweating Stage — All the stages — Fatigue-Clothes—Caution — Colonization—an Error in Philanthropy — Activity Conducive to Health — Evidences of the Fact — FOOTNOTES
22. 22.CLASSICS IN BLACK STUDIES EDITORIAL BOARD — Norm R. Allen Jr. — Molefi Kete Asante — Toyin Falola — CLASSICS IN BLACK STUDIES — THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES and OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NIGER VALLEY EXPLORING PARTY — Martin R. Delany — Toyin Falola

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