You must be aware that they could not remain in Virginia after they were manumitted.
In the Middle and Northern states free blacks are in a degraded condition.
There is no sympathy for or with them.

They have no more rights than they have as slaves with us, and they have no one to care for them when they are sick or in trouble.

You have seen a good deal of this in your occasional visits to the North.

In Washington, since the Abolitionists have intermeddled there, the free blacks have become intolerable; they live from day to day in discomfort and idleness.

I mean as a general thing; there are, of course, occasional exceptions.