[Aunt Phillis’s Cabin by Mary H. Eastman]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Phillis’s Cabin CHAPTER XXVI 53/119
It is on a par with the fact stated, that masters advertise their slaves, and offer rewards for them, dead or alive.
How did the snows of New England ever give birth to such brilliant imaginations! Family relations are generally respected; and when they are not, it is one of the evils attendant on an institution which God has permitted in all ages, for his inscrutable purposes, and which he may in his good time do away with. The Jews ever turn their eyes and affections toward Jerusalem, as their home; so should the free colored people in America regard Liberia.
Africa, once their mother country, should, in its turn, be the country of their adoption. As regards the standard of talent among negroes, I fancy it has been exaggerated; though no one can, at present, form a just conclusion.
Slavery has, for ages, pressed like a band of iron round the intellect of the colored man.
Time must do its work to show what he is, without a like hindrance. The instance mentioned in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," of a young mulatto, George Harris, inventing a machine, is _very solitary_.
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