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SLAVERY IN AMEBICA. 99
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astounding States . In ly one incorrec report t , althoug we foun h d published the number by the of authority colored lunatic of the s whole number of the
c olored a dis population trict , returned of that as said more district than . the A well - known that author he knew and
much district respec s intimatel ted lawyer where , in the Philadel returns phia had , assured been made us purposely false , y
, town to For cas they t the ignomin throng slaves y * on there the the t churches colored is hope dand p to . opulation gain how We instruction wide saw . how spread , eagerl how y in sp them ite every of is
the laws they learn o rea , among Their the knowled churches ge are that the efforts best evidence are making of their for power their of emanci organisation pation . will
and associationand from these churches their improvement taken spring a . iece We o knew f , of one land congregation drained and in fenced Louisiana it , buil , t wh ich churc had h swamp
five on a remarkabl it hundred , and p finall y in the y good , bou large preacher ght towns their , . own in There Mobile minister are there , many a b is lack a congregations church slave , of who above was of
one thousand . These congregations , are almost all Wesleyan or Bap The tist wickedness . f the laws forbidding slaves to learn to read , is
lamen acknow ted ledged by them o many that slave efforts owners are not . We made have to li often ghten heard slavery it , among
which and graduall should y to prepare free the them slaves for , by libert means y . But of some slavery feudal , instead system of
in becoming advancin slaves become li can ghter this , more becomes lead ? severe Nothing heavier ; and , can and to shut what laws out , whi protecting the le idea civiliza of property t liberty ion is
from the g slave , mind , it is there ; it is burning in almost every religious on congre spiri gation tual . freedom We have ; can heard it t among be doub the ted f blacks , b even odand eloquent in soul spite is s meant of ermons the ?
preacher ' denial , that absolue freedom oy a war What from will without be the that end , of will this li ht yst the em ? W ark ill th of reb some ellion within y come ? gsp
T God can o us be it , this lifted seems possible from the the !) most country that probable so . much It is way evil almost should by which impossible quietl thi y s heavy and ( would silen curse tl to y
work colored into were good le . are We gaining fear a streng dreadful th and retribution numbers must , counting come . among The
them no p t only all born of black parents , but all in either of whose parents enumeration advan The tage slave is the was ow of least ners conceded inhabitants tinge are not of to color by the so strong which . _^ lave as the States th ratio ey of were of including . representation The unjust in the
was to be fixedthree fifths of those held in slavery . But the white backed man knows by a very he , does different not represent constituency the from slave that , an of d the tha senator t he st from ands
Massachusetts .
Slavery In Amebica. 99
SLAVERY IN AMEBICA . 99
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/27/
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