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44 SIiAVE PREACHING.
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At nine went _^ to the Sunday New school Orleans of , S the unday colored , February church 7 th ; . the
same church I have visited twice before . It was formerly called John w Wesley oman ' s , j bu oy t now the St . sunshine Paul ' s . , A and t the as door no one was was seated near been an I here asked old black her
her tw one ques enty twenty years tions -five . , - she five dollars She has dollars said been . she ( In to free was Eng provide since from land las we for Mary t Jul should herself land y , having , g bu ive the t had an boug rest old of woman t herself her life fiffcy like for . ) -
She said it was rather hard to have worked eighteen years for the same mistress , and to then herself have t There o give is her twenty certain -five di dollars tin that the
bearing she migh of t a belong free negro when . they say they a belong to gni themselves y , which I _shoxild be lad to see in many of our people who belong to
themselvesbut do g not know how much they are worth , because they have , been slavesShe said she had always lived " a genteel
never . children life ''—4 . e bo . always th free sober one — in had heaven had the but other one husband in Indiana and with only t her wo
, , , husb I heard and loud , a free cries man , prayers . She asked , and me burs for ts a of picayune singing when , from I came a room away be- . said it
hind one I tried of the the to get class pit in , - and teachers , I was asked told leading if no I mi stranger his ght class go in was in ; to she admitted glory . " . " Yes Bu I was , t when was in- ,
tensel I y lad disap of pointed it . I , heard but respected h the to know veto . the It was class not was a show in a state , and was enoug
children of ecstacy g who of were glory repeating . I went a into " Catechism the chapel for and the use sat of down the Methodist with ten
an Missions anel " " to A the fterwards tune " I t ' d be a butterfl g hymns y . " , one I could , " I not wish hel I were singing an
too , they g , enjoyed an A it boli so t that ionist it was I think quite I catching should . bu No ¥ _Rve if I hun were - Barnum y up
dre a d little b lack angels , and t , them all over the world singing hynms and learning to t good d free peop free le , five by hundred which means ni we
mi and gh prove t gain what one hundred they could ho do usan . pounds , ggers , when the teacher
These little creatures seemed made of music , for said " Common metre ! " away they went , every do not , down to well the five but
their year voices old , and are no good one and leading their them idea . of They time perfect . _sing The teacher , the children
they and gave they were very never little quite got instruction easil tired y interested for , but a . mi his , nute but way . like with Durin little g balls an hour of but quicksilver and was with a good half the
an exc in their Eng eption li motion sh of teacher thi s s ; natural they would wanted restle have s lessons sness enj mulattoes oyed they like teaching were Frobel a them " _' likel s etc , . . y After I set do , " and not the think they were _griffes
told lesson me one I he spoke was taug a to ht negro the spelling teacher , and , a reading mulatt . o with Now , a it p is leasant , against face the ; law he
44 Siiave Preaching.
44 SIiAVE PREACHING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/44/
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