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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 22 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
nd the white offenders were punished by being obliged to sit with them. In a word, the free colored people were looked upon as an inferior caste, to whom their liberty was a curse, and their lot worse than that of the slaves, with this difference—that while the latter were kept in bondage for their own good, it Lib. 1.10, 5. would have been very wicked to enslave the former for their good. The inhuman treatment of this class acted, even more than slavery itself, as a deterrent on Heinrich Heine, when tempted to seek a home in America. His poetic imagination gave him, on this subject, a truer moral insight than was to be found in pulpit or pew in the Northern United States. In his letters from Heligoland, under date of July 1, 1830, he writes: Die eigentliche Sklaverei, die in den meisten nordamerikanischen Provinzen abgeschafft, emport mich nicht so sehr wie die Brutalitat womit dic freien Schwarzen und dic Mulatten behandelt werden. Wer auch nur im entferntesten Grade von c