People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — NEGROES START FOR AFRICA. [ARTICLE]

NEGROES START FOR AFRICA.

First Soul hern Party Leaves Memphis to Colonize Dark Continent. Memphis, Tenn., March 7. —Three hundred negroes who arrived in Memphis yesL-rday on railroads leading from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas took trains to-day for Savannah, when on March It they will embark for Africa. They are transported by the African Migration society, to whom each of them was paid sll on installments, which defrays all expenses of the trip. Six thousand negroes are now paying their fares in advance in this, way. Tlie negroes who arrived yesterday are mostly farmers, though there are carpenters, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen. One-half are women and children. Though these negroes met yesterday for the first time they have already agreed to settle in Africa together and form a colony by themselves.