Lost his wife, she leaving an infant son a few months old, The lot of the young slave, till I arrived at the age of nine MyĮarly life on the plantation was such as generally falls to The noted Daniel Boone, and her mother a negress.
Mother was of mixed blood her father, it was said, was Was informed, was a member of the Wickliffe family my
THE BLACK MAN, HIS GENIUS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. Intellectual and amiable qualities which adorn andĭignify human nature, it will meet the most If this work shall aid in vindicating the Negro'sĬharacter, and show that he is endowed with those Given him the advantage of information respecting Opportunity of research amid the archives of EnglandĪnd France, and his visit to the West Indies, have Most of these biographies are for the first time put Themselves to positions of honor and influence, this Have surmounted the many obstacles which slaveryĪnd prejudice have thrown in their way, and raised Own genius, capacity, and intellectual development, Work containing sketches of individuals who, by their Supply a deficiency, long felt in the community, of a 
Meet and refute these misrepresentations, and to The race, and are the mere echoes of the first. The second classĪre those who are ignorant of the characteristics of The blacks, and claim that we were destined only forĪ servile condition, entitled neither to liberty nor the Theyĭelight to descant upon the "natural inferiority" of The greatest injury, by being instrumental in theirĮnslavement and consequent degradation. The firstĪnd most relentless are those who have done them THE calumniators and traducers of the Negro are In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. WALLCUT, 221 WASHINGTON ST.Įntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by "MIRALDA, OR THE BEAUTIFUL QUADROON," ETC.īOSTON: R.
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