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Show Jncid nts in the I.,ifc of a Slave Girl. or 1ll,lj C xporien e \\"Ouhl enal>lc her io re:Hl her 0\\'ll pa g( \~ "-ith anointed eye. . I r ~llO ·were to lay H!" ide h('l' tiil l\ and 1n~t ead of \ i~ itin tn?· Ulll0ll 0 ' th ' fw-,hi onahlc ' ' ' hcL'Onle don1 e~t icated, as a po n· goYerne. ·. ·, on ~ome pL1ntation in Loui ·iana or AlalHUlUt, ~he ·would ,·ee an(l hear things that \YOUlU llHtkc her tell q uitc a uif~ fcrent story. ~fy vi it to England is a n1e1noraLle event in 1ny life, fron1 the faet or 1ny having there received ·trong re~ ligions iJn prot~ ·ions. Tho con te1n ptuou. · DlUUJl er in wh i ·h the eo1n1nuniou had. been achnini~tore<l to eoloreJ people, in n1y native place; the church In n1Lcr. ·hip of lh· . .b'lint, and other· like hitn; and the buyi11g and selling of slaves, by profcs.-ccl nrini tcr · of the o·o. ·pel, luul giYen n1e a prej nJico again.-t the Epi.·copal church. Tho wh lc . ervice ~cctneJ to 1ne a n1ockery and a shatn. But n1y h01ne in Steven ton \v-as in the fan1ily of a clcr~ gynu1.n, \Yh ·was a true dit5ciple of J c. ·us. 'rhe beauty of hi: daily life i11~pircd 1nc with faith in the genuine~ ness of Clni ·tian profc: ·ions. Grace entered n1y l1eart, and I knelt at the co1n1nuuion table, I trust, in true lnnnility of sonl. I r nutinecl abroad ten n1onth. , which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that ti1no, I nc\Tcr sa\v the slightest sy1npto1n of prejudice against color. Indeed, I entirely forgot it, till the tirne came for us to return to A1nerica. [ I Renewed Invitations to go South. 279 XX_/-VIII. RENB\\ ED lNVl'rA.'l'JONS r_ro GO , 10UT11. \Vg had a tedious ·winter paf-i~age, an(l fr0111 Llw distance spectre' seCined to Ji ·e up on Lhe :-;horcs or the United SLates. It is a satl Icc ling to be afraid of one ~s native country. \Ve arrired in 1\Tew ·Yorl~ ~ai<.~ly, and 1 hastcnccl to Bo.-t n to look af'ter 1uy Ghildren. 1 found Ellen ·well, and in1proYing aL her ~clwo l ; bnt Benny \\':1 · not there to welcome 1ne. II c ha<l h 't\n left at a good phtGC to I arn a tr;uk, and for f-iCYeral n1onth: C\·cry thi11g \rork c(l W<'ll. Ire \\'as li ked hy the 1na~ Lcr, and '\rns a faYori te with l1i.· f'el lu\r-apprcntices; Lut one day they <Wc idcn tally < l i~~orerrd a faeL they had never Lefore ·u.-lH)GteJ- that he W<t.· colored! This at once transfonued hitn into a different Leino·. So1ne of the apprentiecs were A.1ncrjcau , oth rs A.tnerican-born lri.·h ; anJ it wa. off en ·ive to their dignity to have a '' nigger" a1nong th01n, after they haJ Leon told. that he was a" ni o·ger." rrhey b gan by treating hin1 ·with silent corn, and ftn<ling th at he returned the an1c, they resorteu to insult.· and ahn.-o. lie \\-a· too spirited a boy to stancl that, and h went off. Being de irons to do so1nethiDg to apport l1im~ elf, and having no one to ad vi. c hi1n, he shipped for a whaling voyage. 'Vhen 1 received th se ti dings I t;}lCd 1nany tears, anti bi lLcrly reproach eel 1nysclf for having left hin1 f;O long. Bnt I had clone jt for tho be. t, ancl 11ow alL I could Jo wa.- to pray to the heave11ly Father to guide a11u protet.:L hin1. |