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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)

CHAPTER III
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The man was rich, well-dressed and very polite, but still the pretended meek followers of Christ could not worship their God and have this sable companion with them.

What a lack of Christianity is this! There are three colored girls here who have been in the habit of attending Friends' meeting where they have lived, but here they are not allowed to sit even on the back seat.

One long-faced elder dusted off a seat in the gallery and told them to sit there.

Their father was freed by his master and left $60,000, and these girls are educated and refined.
Aaron McLean, who is soon to marry her sister Guelma, writes in answer to this: "I am glad to hear that the people where your lot is cast for the present are sensible and reasonable on that exciting subject.

I entreat you to be prudent in your remarks and not attempt to 'niggerize' the good old Friends about you.


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