. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. an in many ways. Hewas the friend of all poor people. Once he founda poor man suf-fer-ing with cold for want of a took off his own coat in the street and put iton the poor man, and then went home in his shirtsleeves. In those days negroes were stolen from Af-ri-cato be sold into A-mer-i-ca. Ben-e-zet wrote littlebooks against this wrong. He sent these booksover all the world almost. He also tried to per-suade the white men of his own country to behonest and kind with the Indians. 46 Great men in other countries were pleased withhis boo
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. an in many ways. Hewas the friend of all poor people. Once he founda poor man suf-fer-ing with cold for want of a took off his own coat in the street and put iton the poor man, and then went home in his shirtsleeves. In those days negroes were stolen from Af-ri-cato be sold into A-mer-i-ca. Ben-e-zet wrote littlebooks against this wrong. He sent these booksover all the world almost. He also tried to per-suade the white men of his own country to behonest and kind with the Indians. 46 Great men in other countries were pleased withhis books. They wrote him letters. When any ofthem came to this country, they went to see wanted to see a man that was good to every-body. His house was a plain one. But great menliked to sit at the table of the good schoolmaster. There was war between the English and Frenchat that time. Can-a-da belonged to the country belonged to the English. There was a coun-try calledA-ca-di-a. Itwas a part ofwhat is nowNo-va Sco-ti-a. The people. of A-ca-di-aFrench. were Departure of the Acadians. The English took the A-ca-di-ans away from their homes. They sent them to various places. Many families were divided. The poor A-ca-di-ans lost their homes and all that they had. Many hundreds of these people were sent toPhil-a-del-phi-a. Benezet became their friend. Ashe was born in France, he could speak their Ian- 47 guage. He got a large house built for someof them to stay in. He got food and clothingfor them. He helped them to get work, and didthem good in many other ways. One day Benezets wife came to him with atroubled face. She said, There have been thievesin the house. Two of my blankets have beenstolen. Never mind, my dear, said Benezet, I gavethem to some of the poor A-ca-di-ans. One old Acadian was afraid of Benezet. Hedid not see why Benezet should take so muchtrouble for other people. He thought that Benezetwas only trying to get a chance to sell the Aca-dians for slave
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