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SLAVE PREACHING. 45
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to teach , slaves , and the greater part of these little ones were slaves , but I such walke laws d down cannot the _Tbe street obeyed with . a negro manwho promised to
, , show me the Baptist church , but feared it was shut up—would go and see—the pavement was narrow and the _negro bowed himself
to the outside with the grace of a well-bred Englishman . The negroes ridiculous here such have as a the very American agreeable caricatures manner , nothing would lead exaggerated you to sup or
pose . The , black church was a rickety barn-like building , large enough to hold seven or eight hundred the , with a verandah out their and
seats beautiful outside leaves , and . There a few were trees three in yard just in the putting verandah and a white man inside the door , sitting on negroes a chair ; he held a baton , and
looked ready for a scrimmage , his face was shrewd and kind , and I like " d Isn his 't there appearance service . this morning ? " said I to Mr . P ., as we will
call him . Mr . P . burst out in an indignant voice , " Of course there is ; of
course . Why , who has a right to shut up this church if I don't do it ? I'd like to see ' em ; this church belongs to the colored
people , and no white man has a right to come and shut it up if I don't . I know seventeen years ago , Isaac ( a colored man )
built this church . Job and Sam helped him : all this ground was That Job put a cypress up - that d swamp alongside side , ; and they was Sam cut far sharpened out the in trees the the and country ends made then of the . the No fence p man iles . ;
knows grave better yar than I that the church and all belongs to the colored wh people they . We have don got 't want Ben for a Mississi their preacher ppi man ; a didn coming 't the here congregation to preach ;
buy y him , to be their minister ? Wnat on airth has a white minister to do with them , be damned to him ? " etc .
and . Now preache we got d here at the , and story then . said " A to Mississi the I shall congregation ppi shut Baptist , minister the ' If you church came don't ive six hundred dollars a up ;
g and these me slaves" as Mr . P . year said" could not work for their masters , give poor money to , support the church , church , and six and hundred said it dollars
besides , and so the thief shut up the , was by order of the mayor . Now , " Mr . P . said , " I am the officer of policein whose care this church isand _Tby God I won't have the
, , poor people shut out of their house , and here I am . " Whereupon the negroes all shook hands with him and with me , and thanked
Angelo God , and ' s got said quite " Wh excited should ; one we old want woman a white like preacher a figure , of isn Michael 't
Benjamin white , enoug , h to y take care of our souls ? and if we want a whiterwe will kill one of our own members , and bleed him white
enough , , we want no strangers . The devil has come among us , but we'll stick together . The devil has come because we were such a
pure little spot here , but we'll drive him out . " Then another
Slave Preaching. 45
SLAVE PREACHING . 45
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/45/
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