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98 SLAVERY IN AMERICA;
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^» There Are Fifteen Slave States In Ame...
fields and cabins of the slaves , or if lie became familiarly acquaintedwith , slave preachers , and heard their accounts of the lives of the
generality of the slave population . "We heard well authenticated reports of atrocities committed by
masters on slaves , equal to any related in " Uncle Tom . " A French slave holder in Louisiana , known to a friend of ours , was in the
habit of _pulling out his slaves' teeth ., when they refused to answer a question . Women are often cruel slave owners , but it is said the
Northern men are the most cruel masters of all . Spaniards and Roman Catholics are considered very kind to their slaves , more so
than slaves Americans refusing their and proffered Protestants libert . y There . We are have many known instances of slaves of
going North , being * freed , and returning South , preferring slavery there to freedom in the North . The black man has great love of
country , and America is now his country . Very few blacks wish to go to Africa , the free negroes have a decided repugnance to Liberia ,
and we know many rich colored people who preferred remaining in America , although in an inferior position , to going to Europe ,
where they would be received on an equality with the whites . Upon an equality with the whites , we deliberately affirm , for the mulatto
and quadroon are human beings , capable of being virtuous and useful members of societyand are eminently distinguished for
, gentleness , kindness , and all the gifts of the imagination ; perhaps they are inferior to the Anglo-Saxon in certain mental attributes ,
but on the whole very superior to the Celt . We visited schools for colored children and carefully examined
competent persons who agreed with us that the mulatto and quadroon are equal in mental endowments to many European races . In
Louisiana , the colored race is superior , both in health and beauty , to the white ; and it seems probable that some day the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico will be peopled by a race springing from the white and black , endowed both with the African ' s physical power to labor
in the sun , and the American ' s intellect to guide and control commerce .
We must however confess that it is very dim cult to give an opinion concerning the health of mulattos . Every slave owner told
us they were inferior in health , strength , and longevity , to the whites or blacks ; but physicians resident in Louisiana assert that there
the health of mulattos is superior to that of whites ; they do not often suffer from yellow fever and other diseases of the country .
During our stay in New Orleans , we remarked that in the register of deaths , mulatto women were reported as attaining the greatest age ;
often above a hundred years . In appearance of health , in the Southern States , the quadroons and mulattos far surpass the whites .
Southern writers are very fond of asserting that insanity is more rife among the colored population than among the white , and they
bring formidable statistics to back their theory . But if these
_^ statistical returns are examined , it will be found they are often most
98 Slavery In America;
98 SLAVERY IN AMERICA ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/26/
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