People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — GOING TO AFRICA. [ARTICLE]

GOING TO AFRICA.

Many Southern Negroes Sacrificing Their Holdings to Get Away. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 10. —The negroes in this section of the south, particularly those in Arkansas, have contracted the emigration fever again, and there is an exodus of black men to Africa. A dispatch from Marianna, Ark., says that all the negroes of that neighborhood are sacrificing whab little property they have with the intention of going to the dark continent. One car load has passed through Brinkley en route for New York, from whence they intend to sail for their ultimate destination. It seems as if the scheme has been worked up by: ; negro agents, who have been canvassing the section for some time, for what purpose or in whose interests is not known. Many of the negroes owned small places and several bead of stock, and were, comparatively speaking, in good circumstances, but have sacrificed all for a few dollars to pay their way to New York. A prominent planter purchased nineteen hogs from one of these would-be emigrants for the small sum <">f six dollars..