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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
ken, but by what is given. The slaves had been taught in the school and out of the book of good example. They were pupils of the old masters. From them the slave had acquired that which is the secret of all growth; the trait of truly perceiving and then of truly revering a higher than himself. They had been taught the military lesson of well-disciplined duty; and taught so well that, when the master was fighting in the field, fidelity to discipline, devotion to duty, were unabated. Mrs. Morse Earle, herself a descendant of the pilgrims, writing of Boston at a time when this humane city was still a slave mart, says: Negro children were advertised to be sold by the pound as other merchandise, citing proof. We have, she adds, a few records of worthy black servants who remind us of the faithful black house servants of old Southern families. These are the men, said Wilson, of Massachusetts, of the freedmen after the war, who have been elevated from chattelhood to manhood. Yes, but i