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Bible bow inexcusable is the cruelty with which prejudice , tntoprtitol' by aything kt his own country , has stamped the black man as an inferior iieing , yet he would never content to take Mr . Child's arm , while walking with him in the street ; jest such an instance of uncommon liberality should bring reproach or odium ' on Ma kind-hearted friend . '—vol . i . p . 136—138 ,
The following is part of an account of the state penitentiary at Richmond , in Virginia : 1 superintendant was at Washington ; and I was unable to procure a report . The keeper , however , who attended , informed me that nearly one-third of the prisoners were free coloured persons . Admitting the truth of the statement , there are reasons enough to account for it .
* Considering the treatment they receive , one feels more indignation at its injustice tna jyMftP r ^ se at * results . They are deprived of every motive to good co 4 | ng and shut out from every path to improvement . They are not allowed to have any schools , or to give evidence against a white in a court of juQtice . They have no churches of their own , and cannot be married by djfcnister of their own complexion . If they leave the State , except as servJKs , they cannot return to their own homes . No free person of colour is permitted , from another town , and still less
from another State , to reside in the city . Having no protection against insult and outrage , and subjected to such indignities and disabilities , it would be singular if the greater part did not become desperate and reckless ;—with no object but the gratification of the moment , and no incentive but what they have in common with the irrational part of the creation . They are degraded to the lowest state of ignorance and helplessness that the law and the usages of society can reduce them to/—vol . ii . p . 262 .
These men have too much reason to prefer Canada to Virginia . One of them told me that he was desirous of giving his children a decent education : that two or three years ago they were making satisfactory progMjs at school , when he was compelled to remove them , and teach them himself as well as he could , with the assistance of his ^¦ p fe * during his leisure hours . Not only are the coloured people for-Didden to learn reading and writing , but no white is permitted to
instruct them . There is an ordinance of the ci | y of Savannah , in Georgia , by which " any person that teaches any person of colour , slave or free , to read or write , or causes such persons to be so taught , is subjected to a fine # f thirty dollars , or to be imprisoned ten days , and whipped thirty-nine lashes . " So much for liberty in America , where even a white roan i « not free to perform a benevolent action , or to educate his own children .
' No expedient is left untried to drive the emancipated and their descendants out of the slave States . By a most iniquitous act , passed in 1823 , the town-council of George-town are empowered to impost and collect an annual tax on such lot or lots , piece or pieces of land , within the Jff ^ fM of the to wn , aa may be exclusively inliabifcdl' by a stave or ftk ^ mkr a ^ pe rton of colour , &c , not within arf * inolosure upon which A white perton resides 3—provided the said annual Ux shall * not * I 9 # ^ f *» e bttfUraVdollars oa each lot or piece of JmuL Tfoynuty also impose and collect an annual lax upon each and every free nerwon
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/46/
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