American - Businessman | 1788 - 1873
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.
Lewis Tappan
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We will persevere, come life or death.
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If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
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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!
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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.
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The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
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The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
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They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.
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There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
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The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
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Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.
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The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.
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