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towards the free blacks , we may almost open the books at random . It i appears , that the prejudice is , stronger among women than roeuy among the clergy thaa the laity ; and in the towns than in the > country . The following happened at Boston : . , - " * ttovv far the aristocracy of the skin is carried in this pious city , may b ' e ' &eeii ' bv a ctirious document that was put into my hands by an abo *
lilionist . A free black , Some few years ago , came-ihto possession of a pfcvr in one of the churches here . It was the only thing he could obtain from a man who was unable , or unwilling , to pay a legal claim he had upon him . Having furnished it , he offered it for sale . Not finding a purchaser at the price he demanded , —and few would be likely to give the full value for what no one imagined the owner would dare to make use > of , —he determined to occupy it himself;—whether he was
unconscious of the offence he was about to give , or thought he might as well speculate upon the white man ' s pride , as , it would seem , the white man had speculated upon his submissiveness . The sensation produced by his unexpected appearance among the favoured children of Nature in the very sanctum sanctorum of their distinctions , can be described by those only who witnessed it . The next Sunday , he took his wife and children wifli him . —It Bhould be observed that the coloured people are not admitted to places of worship , except to small pews or boxes set apart
expressly for them , and so placed that they can hear without offending the fastidious delicacy of the congregation . At Albany , there is one where a curtain is placed in front to conceal the occupants , when there are any ; for those for whom they are destined seldom enter them , and speak of them with the contempt they deserve , as " martin * holes' * and 44 human menageries . " It was now high time that notice should be taken of this contumacious spirit ; and the intruder received the two following notes :
* Me . Brinsley . "Sib , ** If you have any pew-furniture in pew No . 38 , Park Street Meetinghouse , you will remove it this afternoon . 44 GEORGE ODIORNE , for the Committee . - * March 6 , 193 0 . " 4 With the above was the copy of a note , written the day before to this Agent of the Committee , in these words :
* . Demi Sir . 4 Pcwr No- 38 in Park Street Church is let to Mr . Andrew Ellison . «# ours respectfully , "J . BUMSTEAD . " Frederick Brinsley , coloured roan , Elm Street ; " the contents are as follow : ' " Boston , March 6 , 1830 .
4 " fcf a . Frederick Brinsley . / ** 5 WTmdeaUal Committee of Park Street Church notify you not to eceoOT M ? . f ^ 4 a th * lowe * floor of Park Street Meetiog-houise pa * N ^ Ji ^ bWh * , or < m « ny otiwrd * y % during Hie time xrf , Pfti * e wwtyj |
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 736, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/44/
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