Excerpt from Liberia: The Land of Promise to Free Colored Men I have now a word to say about the factories. The factories are small houses placed along the coast, _and are established by English, American, French. Or other, houses in Europe, for the purpose of carrying on trade with the natives. Same of the agents will frequently go into the interior for one hundred and fifty or'two hundred miles, to traffic with the natives, and purchase cam-wood and palm-oil. And such is the natives' love of gain, that they will often travel ten, twenty, and even thirty miles, carrying on their backs quantities of produce to sell to the agents. An opinion is generally prevalent, in this country, that the negro is a lazy man; but when you see them at their work - when you see them coming from the interior, a distance of twenty or thirty miles - and bend ing down with the burdens on their backs, which they Wish to sell to the traders. You would soon dismiss that idea from your minds. Give the negro some in centive to labor, and there is not a more plodding or industrious man in the world than the African. (loud applause.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.