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264 SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH.
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_looking" husband ; Mr . C , the Californian gentleman with an intellectual face ; and Mrs . B who has a very beautiful
ex-, _23 ression and is the most refined woman on board the boat . Mr . q _was occupied with a newspaper / and read out loud the
announcement of the marriage of a nralatto man to a white girl ; it excited from all expressions of the utmost disgust and horror . I
asked , " Is it very uncommon ?" Mr . C . —Yes , thank God ; only permitted in Massachusetts and
a few states . Self . —There seems to me nothing objectionable in it . My
brothers were at school with a mulatto boy , and I with a mulatto girl ; and I have seen mulattoes in England who were not unlikely
to marry with white _jDeojDle . All . —At school !—at school with negroes !
Self . —Yes . All— . How could you ! Horrid idea !
Self . — "Why , your little children all find It possible to come in close contact with negro nursesand seem very fond of them ; there
, is no natural antipathy . Some . —Yes , there is an inborn disgust which prevents
amalgamation . [ Mark this ; only half the negroes in the United States are full-blooded Africans ; the rest born of white fathers and black
mothers . _]] Some . —No , it is only the effect of education .
Mr . C . —There is no school or college in the United States where negroes could be educated with whites .
Self . —You . are wrong , sir . At Oberlin , boys , girls , and negroes are educated together .
Mrs . B . —Yes , I know that , because Lucy Stone was educated there with people of color .
Mr . C . —Lucy Stone ! She is a " woman's rights " woman , and an atheistas all those people are . Have you heard her speak ?
, Mrs . B . —Yes , she speaks wonderfully well ; she is an eloquent orator . I was carried away by her at first . She said women had
a right to vote , and all that sort of nonsense . Mrs . C . —Nonsense , indeed ! Why , women if they have not
certain rights are exempt from certain duties . Mrs . B . —Oh yes ; certainly women ' s rights are grea trubbish .
As I wanted the conversation to continue apon the subject of slavery , I did not give them my opinions on woman ' s rights , but
asked , "Do not you think it right to give any education to the negro races _?"
Mrs . B . —Oh yes ; every child should be taught to read the Bible .
Mrs . H . —I do not think they ought to be taught to read it ; it makes them unhappy : and you will find that all the negroes who
run them away . are those who have learnt how to read . I would not teach
264 Slavery In The South.
264 SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/48/
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