What is "hinderances"

Usage examples of "hinderances".

I have felt it to be a part of my mission – under a gracious Providence to impress my sable brothers in this country with the conviction that, notwithstanding the ten thousand discouragements and the powerful hinderances, which beset their existence in this country – notwithstanding the blood-written history of Africa, and her children, from whom we have descended, or the clouds and darkness (whose stillness and gloom are made only more awful by wrathful thunder and lightning) now overshadowing them – progress is yet possible, and bright skies shall yet shine upon their pathway.