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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

CHAPTER III
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It is fitted out with lodging rooms, various professors' departments, dining hall, chapel, library, and all the appurtenances of a university.

The number of student at the close of the last term was _fifteen_.
The professors, two in number, are supported by a fund, consisting of L40,000 sterling, which has in part accumulated from the revenue of the estate.
The principal spoke favorably of the operation of the apprenticeship in Barbadoes, and gave the negroes a decided superiority over the lower class of whites.

He had seen only one colored beggar since he came to the island, but he was infested with multitudes of white ones.
It is intended to improve the college buildings as soon as the toil of apprentices on the Society's estate furnishes the requisite means.

This robbing of God's image to promote education is horrible enough, taking the wages of slavery to spread the kingdom of Christ! On re-ascending the hill, we called at the Society's school.

There are usually in attendance about one hundred children, since the abolition of slavery.


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