ABSTRACT
I received early this morning a visit from a young Negro called Mor ris, who came to request permission to be baptized. The master’s leave is necessary for this ceremony of acceptance into the bosom of the Chris tian Church; so all that can be said is, that it is to be hoped the rite itself
18 Frances Anne Kemble,Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, edited with an introduction by John A. Scott (New York, 1961), 120-121, 229-231.
