Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, September 22nd, 2001
We shall probably understand how to deal wisely with the negro race by and by. At present, what with contempt at one time and sentimentalism at another, we contrive to treat them first as animals, and next and immediately after as intellectual beings, as if the act of emancipation made them civilized and responsible creatures. It is very probable that the insurrection in Jamaica, while teaching us of the error we have fallen into, will warn the Americans of what may be theirs. Our peculiar error has been that when we had once accomplished the plain duty of granting the negroes freedom, we thou...
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