The only persons responsible for the depravity of the
negroes are their scoundrelly owners, who are, nevertheless, not ashamed to
talk of the Christianizing influence of slavery. Whatever the condition of the
slaves may be, it does not degrade them as a bad life does most people, for
their faces are generally good. I suppose this is owing to their utter
ignorance and innocence of evil.
We landed on this island last night, and to-day are bringing
everything to our camp, a mile from the landing, by hand. Having a great many
stores, it is a long job. I am sitting on a box in the middle of a field of
sand, under a tent-fly, and writing on my knee.
SOURCE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard
Memorial Biographies, Volume 2, p. 205
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