... States. Few statesmen dared to encourage migration toCHAPTER IV 24Canada because the large number of fugitives who had already escaped there had attached to that region thestigma of being an ... soon became evident that a better method was necessary. Finally out of theproposals of various thinkers and out of the actual colonization feats of Paul Cuffé, a Negro, came a nationalmeeting ... increased in Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina andthe District of Columbia. The number of free Negroes of Florida remained constant. Those of Arkansas,Mississippi...