. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. e whites. The Appolo, Boston, declares that the whitesknew the time of a negro dance by the number of stolen Jonas Michaelius writing from New Netherlands August 11, 1623,to Rev. Adrianus Smoutius says : The Angola slaves are thievish,lazy and useless trash. The fact that the negro hasjsome native power of imagination andor fine feeling is attested by the poetry of the remarkable Phyllis 7 Wheatly and by the hypothesis of the negro Glasgow concerning the & introduction of evil into the world. Chastelleux tells of a negro k servant of Mr.
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. e whites. The Appolo, Boston, declares that the whitesknew the time of a negro dance by the number of stolen Jonas Michaelius writing from New Netherlands August 11, 1623,to Rev. Adrianus Smoutius says : The Angola slaves are thievish,lazy and useless trash. The fact that the negro hasjsome native power of imagination andor fine feeling is attested by the poetry of the remarkable Phyllis 7 Wheatly and by the hypothesis of the negro Glasgow concerning the & introduction of evil into the world. Chastelleux tells of a negro k servant of Mr. Langdon of Portsmouth , New Hampshire, wAo said to hismaster as he accompanied him to war Master, you are hurting your - 1. Thachers Journal, 175. 2. Conn. Hist. Coll. , 548. 3. Hist, of Amer., Part II, 54, 133, 139. 4. Lecture delivered at Danville, I11.,in 1900. 5. Hist Mag. VII, , 11. 6. Doc. rel. to Col. Hist, of N. Y., II , 768. 7. Top. Desc. of the Western Territory of N. A., 229 8. Life anri wor^« o^ John Adams, II, sel-P, but no matter, you are going to fight for liberty; I shouldsuffer also patiently if I had Liberty to defend!! Dont let thatstop you , replied Mr. Langdon, from this moment you are negro followed hira and behaved with courage/ Negroes won theconfidence of their masters to a sufficient degree to be allowed totrain with the militia, but this practice5begun in 1652}was discon- tinued in 1656, since cases of negroes trainingWere found upon ex- perience-neither wanting or inconvenient. The very best illustra-tion of the capacity of colonial slaves which has come to my handmay be the petition presented by nineteen slaves of New Hampshireto the Council and House of Representatives of that state on Novem-ber 12, 1779, praying for their freedom. The rhetoric of the peti-tion is not faultless, but it displays noble feeling. Upon the occasion of the murder of two Indian women at Detroitby a negro, Sir William Johnson explained to the Indians b
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