[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 CHAPTER II 30/133
Are the negroes likely to revenge by violence the wrongs which they have suffered, after they obtain their freedom? _I never heard the idea suggested, nor should I have thought of it had you not made the inquiry._ We called on Mr.Rogers, the teacher of a Mico charity infant school in Bath.
Mr.R., his wife and daughter, are all engaged in this work.
They have a day school, and evening school three evenings in the week, and Sabbath school twice each Sabbath.
The evening schools are for the benefit of the adult apprentices, who manifest the greatest eagerness to learn to read.
After working all day, they will come several miles to school, and stay cheerfully till nine o'clock. Mr.R.furnished us with a written communication, from which we extract the following. _Quest._ Are the apprentices desirous of being instructed? _Ans._ Most assuredly they are; in proof of which I would observe that since our establishment in Bath, the people not only attend the schools regularly, but if they obtain a leaf of a book with letters upon it, that is their _constant companion_.
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