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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

CHAPTER III
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Her occasional remarks, made with genuine modesty, indicated good sense and discrimination.
Among other topics of conversation, prejudice was not forgotten.

The company were inquisitive as to the extent of it in the United States.

We informed them that it appeared to be strongest in those states which held no slaves, that it prevailed among professing Christians, and that it was most manifestly seen in the house of God.

We also intimated, in as delicate a manner as possible, that in almost any part of the United States such a table-scene as we then presented would be reprobated and denounced, if indeed it escaped the summary vengeance of the mob.

We were highly gratified with their views of the proper way for the colored people to act in respect to prejudice.


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