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48 SLAVE PEEACHING.
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stood up in his place among the men , who are all together , and there prayedthe turned heads of the negroes all round ,
ture with their I was deep ; expression near up them of attention and saw , their was faces a very some wonderful full p and icvery ; ,
some . black profiles against the , light . Some I should have taken for Jews , and some were Scotch in outline , with _strong-ly marked
features , and no negro trace ; yet these same , when I saw their full facewere black and had woolly hair . After all was over ,
there new , Jouvin began _vexy a love universal sboth droit shaking and gauche of hands were all grasped round . with As terrible for my
eagerness by g black , hands , and my two arms ached with the shakes I received . I talked to men and women , was presented by the
gentleman of police to the minister and deacons , and shook hands again . They implored me to help in getting up a Sunday school ,
but I told them I must go away in a week . Negroes are for the most part Methodists : a small number are
Catholics . In . Maryland and Louisiana the proportion of Catholics is more considerable .
Whatever be their form of _relig-ion , we must acknowledge that they have the religious sentiment highly developed . All consider
themselves like the Hebrews in Egypt . They await their exit and their deliverance from the land of slavery . This conviction ,
maintained by a foreign power , would become dangerous for the Union . In the slave states the preachers are generally slaves . They are
paid by their congregation . The masters do not usually interfere with the preachers or their nocks . In the free states , the negroes
have their private churches , in which ministers of their own race , either black or mulattoofficiate .
All their preachers , are remarkable for memory and powers of elocution . They can recite whole chapters of the Old or New
Testament without having recourse to the text . At the voice of the preacher the congregation groans , weeps , gesticulates , and . indulges
in strange movements . In leaving the church they shake hands with one another in token of their brotherhood ; they do this also
with the white strangers who may happen to be there .-In all the states we remarked the love the negroes have for
Queen Victoria . They speak of her as their protectress , and hope that she will come one day and visit them . In the Canadas there
are about thirty thousand negroes , free or fugitive , that the Queen of England may consider as her most devoted _siibjects . At her
command they would willingly take up arins against the United States , which God forbid !
13 . L . S . 33 ,
48 Slave Peeaching.
48 SLAVE PEEACHING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/48/
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