European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Would not eat sugar because it was a product of West Indian stave Anthony Benezet of Philadel another proposed in 1762 that slaves be freed by Law and Given when an admirer gave his wife a slave to help with the Sam Adams immediately freed in Thomas Jef Ferson drafted a Bill permitting manumission of but it was in South Henry who became president of Congress and whose was one of George Washington aides and was almost the last american killed in the said he was consider ing liberating his great Powers oppose me the Laws and customs of my my own and the avarice of my what will my children say if 1 deprive them of so much estate these Are but not i will do As much As i Coji in my and leave the rest to a better the main objection to abolition in the North was of the few who bought his Freedom and lived to write of his experience was Laudah taken As a teenager in Nigeria the stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably that it was dangerous to remain there any time the air soon became unfit for and brought on a sick Ness among the slaves of which Many died this wretched situation was again aggravated by the Gal Ling of the now become and the filth of the necessary into which the Chil Dren often fell and it was almost a constant practice with our and other to commit violent depredations on the female a preacher in Newport would offer thanks in Church whenever a shipment arrived for an overruling provi Dence that brings another cargo of the Heathen to enjoy the blessings of a gospel by there were Between and Black Bondsmen in the 20 times that by and a Peculiar institution had taken in new about two per cent of the population were bearing such names As psyche and they were mostly House porters or Dock they often ate with their Mas ters and were treated More As indentured the stingy soil could support Small family not Large the Yankee looked on himself As a full participant in a new society Hen from the wilderness where slavery by its very nature was Antithetic there As in the Middle a ready Supply of bonded White it was in the where huge tracts of land were available for on crop cultivation that slavery Tobac Tor was labor requiring care Ful worming and Rice the profits from Rice and indigo the South pm Staples Cotton came later could be Gabriel Mani gauls a Huguenot recalled i have been for six months Login her without tasting bread working the ground like a when Manugault himself he left an estate of prodigious for the an industrious planter figured to get his capital Back in three but there was considerable opposition to slavery among John a Quaker minister from mount that slaves could not properly be freed by a govern ment dedicated to the preservation of private prop but in Congress did suspend the slave Trade As a blow at British the Blacks did not play a major role in the revolution Crispus Attucks was one of five killed in the Boston Mas but he probably had As much Indian blood As As Well As some Thomas a freed Pilot in advised Blacks to seek British Protection when they showed up and offered to guide the first Manofar Over the Harbor Mouth he was hanged and then burned on Peter a Black is credited with kill ing John British Marine at Bunker Hill and appears in John tru Buus famous painting of the Blacks who had fled to Dunmore fought with his troops at great Bridge South of Norfolk in but a coloured was one of the heroes in the american after Valley Christopher Greene returned to his native Rhode Island and raised a Black when he was mortally wounded in a later his guard of Blacks fought about him until All were Washington vacillated on the Issue of enlisting in he met with his commanders and by a great majority decided to reject negroes All this angered Blacks who were serving at so on Washington asked Congress to reverse Congress whereupon resolved that the free negroes who have served faithfully in the army at Cam Bridge May be reenlisted but no the new England colonies continued to accept Black enlistees but did not draft them out of respect for the sensitivities of the almost a thousand slaves gathered to but Many More could see that tories were slaveholders and deemed it better to Trust the Devil they w Iron sculpture found at site of Foroe at slave quarters of 18th Century Virginia hat is Little realized is that bonded servants were a Large part of the american army the White slaves who were also a Large part of the if we leave out of account the substantial Puritan migration of writes historian Richard Hof not less than and perhaps consider ably of All the White immigrants of the colonies were indentured redemption ers or about on third came to Amer Ica in the colonial like Britain emptying their Jakes i privies on our said one angry those whose chains were As real if less literal were the indentured servants who signed a contract agreeing to work for a specific usually four for a master in their lot was often As hard As the Black and it was not until 1800 that Black slaves outnumbered these Whites in the redemption or was a different Kas bound shipping was bulk cargoes of Rice or westbound Low bulk manufactured enterprising shipowners saw the profits of filling up the space with Many of them germans oppressed by poverty and religious since the average passage of six pounds represented a years wage for the poorer the offer of a free ticket was a tempting once in the Captain would auction off his Passen Gers for whatever the traffic would an average of 20 pounds in Maryland but As High As 40 or 50 in Virginia where bidding was the apprentice system was another form of tude by which youngsters were bonded to learn a Trade in Exchange for lodging and rudimentary Edu the apprentice in turn promised to be Dili gent and avoid ale houses and other harmful one Man said the ambition of every apprentice was be harass their masters As much As possible without getting hogged for Esther Forbes writes they worked hours that would supposedly kill a modern boy they seduced their masters fell through the ice and drowned Tricy left careless fires and burned Down bake shops they stole great wigs and Silver spoons they ran away and were whipped publicly and privately after age they could open their own hire an apprentice and seek their revenge in a while America was called the Best poor mans country in the it was not exactly a land of the it 1973 the stars and stripes Page 13