ABSTRACT
American slavery had its birth simultaneous with the landing of the Mayflower. As an institution, it reaches beyond, anterior to the American State; as a blessing and a curse, they have walked through this new land of promise in the west. On the 5th of March, 1770, the British soldiers marched into King street, known now as State. Their presence incensed the citizens, and a crowd, led by Crispus Attucks, a negro, advanced upon the troops. The superior manhood and sterling soldierly qualities so clearly evinced by the negro, had won for him golden opinions both in America and England. Every class of the American people had ample opportunity for educating themselves, except the colored people. In a white child, of whatsoever nationality, a desire for culture was looked upon as a virtue; but in a negro child, both as a vice and a crime.
