Letters From An American Farmer By Hector St. John De Crevecoeur



















































































































































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They Marry Where Inclination Leads Them; Visit Their Wives Every Week; Are As Decently Clad As The Common People; They Are Indulged In Educating, Cherishing, And Chastising Their Children, Who Are Taught Subordination To Them As To Their Lawful Parents:

In short, they participate in many of the benefits of our society, without being obliged to bear any of its burdens.

They are fat, healthy, and hearty, and far from repining at their fate; they think themselves happier than many of the lower class whites: they share with their masters the wheat and meat provision they help to raise; many of those whom the good Quakers have emancipated have received that great benefit with tears of regret, and have never quitted, though free, their former masters and benefactors.

But is it really true, as I have heard it asserted here, that those blacks are incapable of feeling the spurs of emulation, and the cheerful sound of encouragement? By no means; there are a thousand proofs existing of their gratitude and fidelity: those hearts in which such noble dispositions can grow, are then like ours, they are susceptible of every generous sentiment, of every useful motive of action; they are capable of receiving lights, of imbibing ideas that would greatly alleviate the weight of their miseries. But what methods have in general been made use of to obtain so desirable an end? None; the day in which they arrive and are sold, is the first of their labours; labours, which from that hour admit of no respite; for though indulged by law with relaxation on Sundays, they are obliged to employ that time which is intended for rest, to till their little plantations.

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