od that
they are "raised 'way up to heaven's gate in privilege." As I sat in
that prayer-meeting I could almost have risen and asked the prayers of
the slaves in behalf of many at the North who are making themselves and
others nearly insane on their behalf. But I thought of my former
ignorance and prejudice, and said, "And such were some of you."
I will tell you some of the little incidents which meet one every day,
and which give you impressions respecting the relations between the
whites and blacks, full as instructive as those received in any other
way.
Crossing a public street, which is steep, in the city of ----, a
truckle-cart came by me at great speed, drawn by a white boy, with
another white boy pushing, and seated in it, erect and laughing, was a
fine-looking black boy of about the same age as his white playmates.
Around the corner of another street there came by me, with a
skip-and-jump step, two white girls, about thirteen years old, and
between them--the arms of the three all intertwined--was another girl of
the same age, as black as ebony. On they went jumping, and keeping step,
and singing.
I had not been accustomed to such sights in Beacon Street, on my visits
to Boston. "Friends of the slave," as we most surely are, and some of us
being decorated with that name by way of distinction, significant of our
all-absorbing business "to raise the black man at the South to the
condition of a human being," when we get them there we are not greeted
in the streets with pictures of white and black children on such terms
as appeared in these two casual incidents. Nothing at first struck me
with greater wonder at the South than to see the most fashionably
dressed ladies in the most public streets stop to help a black woman
with a burden on her head, if she needed assistance, or to hold a gate
open for a man with a wheelbarrow.
One white boy cried to another across a street, "Come along, it's most
time to be in school." The other answered, in a petulant tone, "I a'n't
going
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.