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SLAVERY IN AMERICA. ' 95
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^» There Are Fifteen Slave States In Ame...
these the privileged are not part slaves of the but community free colored ok any peop terms le . We of equality have known ; and
instances of young ladies , of this class who would not walk out in tinge the day of time African in color the streets exposed of them New to Orleans be spoken , because to h their y whites slight in
manner intolerable to modest women . We have known respectable teachers a obliged to refuse to give lessons to free colored children , white ils would
have because withdrawn , had they their done children so , the , parents and this of their even though pup the lessons
had In been these separatel fifteen y Rep given ublican . States there are from 345 , 000 to Th
350000 men who hold their fellow men in bondage . ere are two , slave-owners who hold more than a thousand , and nine who to the effect
from five hundred to a thousand slaves . As own of this holding upon the holders , we Jefferson may imagine of what it in it his is likel Notes y
to on be Virg , and inia we , " words may hear which what we Mr , from . our own says observation , can _" affirm to be true .
" The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise f tht boistpassionsthe t unremitting dtism on the one
oe moserous , mos espo this part , and and learn the most to imitate degrading itfor submission man is an on imi the tative other animal . Our . children If a parent see
had , n . o other motiveeither , his philanthropy or Ms self-love , for restraining the sufficien intemperance t that his of , child passion is present towards his _JS-ut slave generall , it shoul it is d not alwa sufficient ys be .
on The the parent same one storms airs in , t the he ch circle ild looks of smaller on , . catches slaves the g lineaments ives y loose of to _tvrath his , wors puts t
pas but si be stamped , and thus by it nursed _ivith , odious educate peculiarities d , and dail " y exercised , in tyranny , cannot
States Nothing so much strikes as the Europeans universal who politeness have resided and good in the temper Northern . In rich le
destroyed Europe , and while in Eng they land are children especiall , y by , the the tempers tyranny of they see peop exercised are
over servantsand the . submission they see in servants towards masters . In the , Northern States of America , there is no servant to remain
class servants servant ; ther and , they e master are exact servants to respect make , but it ; they and do enoug not for h mean equality the latter always exists to keep between his necessary
temper temper prevailing under control among . Probabl the Northern y this is Americans one The reason Southern . On of gentleman trav the ellin good g
Southwe found the change very striking . In is blustering the , drawing in - manner rooms , we violent saw in the language ' chivalry , and ' of given the to South swearing , and .
ob affir serve m that d their they much are pol boasted ite and courtesy kind to to _tvome ' ladies ? i , as / the but Northerners we cannot
always Another and point universall which y forced are . itself on our observation int in the the South slave ,
was States the we want were of in truthfulness the cabin of . a steam our first boat , entranc talking with o a party of ,
Slavery In America. ' 95
SLAVERY IN _AMERICA . ' 95
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/23/
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