Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
From Lewis Tappan
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
We will persevere, come life or death.
The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.
If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.
They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
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