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A: COLORED LADY LECTUEER. 271
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tlie g occupy lance public . but It sentiment did one not room m . of atter the The to community m this any committee disadv in antages what , who district can merel be y seen a reflected colored at a
of child winter might to live this ; one it must school walk . But in the more heat , than of all summer this , it , was and publicl the cold y
be branding any thus public insulted , us school with degradation , and while robbed the . children of The their child of personal of native every -born forei rights parents gner . could My were father enter to
against waited upon their the proposed school p committee lan . We , still and most continued about earnestl to hour y attend protested before the
schoolbut felt much anxiety . One morning , an the that usual , could time no for longer dismissing be permitted the pup to ils , attend the teacher the school informed that he us
had received we orders from the committee to give us this information , , and _added' I wish to accompany you home , as I wish to converse
of with an indi y the gnant on your e ; great I ,, , onl and parents y injustice two wept upon expressed bitter practised the tears matter much ; upon then . sympath ' , Some in me a y few and . of I the min had longed utes pup no , ils I words for thoug seemed some for ht
power to help me to crush those who thus robbed , me of my personal rig " hts Years . have elapsed _, since : this occurred like the , but scarlet the lett memory of Hester of it is
is as : fresh as ever on in my heart mind . We , and had , been expelled from er the school , oil engraven the sole ground my of our lexion . The teacher walked home
comp pained with _ais , by held the a course long taken conversation by the with school our committee parents , but said added he was it
was munity owing He to the als prejudice said we against were color which his best existed pup _^ ils in for the good
com-. o among , lessons tax- , punctualit for y , before & c , add I was to this born the [ and fact it that will my need father no was extra a
clear payer vision to years perceive that American , prejudice against free-born men " In and such women a community is as deep it -rooted is always It is as it easy is hateful to to call be and forth felt cruel in this . greater feeling
a , s the occasion may require . always a ) nferior r less exclusive degree . Our public parents school , decided and in we a short should time met not our the enter whole an
famil lifiicult fortunes y removed y . The -. formerl to schools Newport made -would , Rhode b not the Island receive forei . gn colored Here slave we pup trade ils . in Large same this
_iown _Wretched , and were victims , if report of that y was inhuman true , y the traffic chains could worn still by be some seen of in the the this it
_ielLars of some of the houses of the elder citizens . Be as may , ; school lie spirit of prejudice established was by exceeding a few of ly bitter the more in Newport influential . A private of the
was _iolored citizensand for a time I was a pupil . Thus ended my school days , and , the limited teaching I had ; and its desultory
_character was not its only disadvantage _^
A: Colored Lady Lectueer. 271
A : COLORED LADY LECTUEER . 271
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/55/
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