Throughout the whole route, Mr. Linwood saw by the deference paid
to Jerome, whose black complexion excited astonishment in those
who met him, that there was no hatred to the man in Europe, on
account of his color; that what is called prejudice against color
is the offspring of the institution of slavery; and he felt
ashamed of his own countrymen, when he thought of the complexion
as distinctions, made in the United States, and resolved to
dedicate the remainder of his life to the eradication of this
unrepublican and unchristian feeling from the land of his birth,
on his return home.
After a stay of four weeks at Dunkirk, the home of the Fletchers,
Mr. Linwood set out for America, with the full determination of
freeing his slaves, and settling them in one of the Northern
States, and then to return to France to end his days in the
society of his beloved daughter.
THE END.
NOTE.--The author of the foregoing tale was formerly a Kentucky
slave. If it serves to relieve the monotony of camp-life to the
soldiers of the Union, and therefore of Liberty, and at the same
time kindles their zeal in the cause of universal emancipation,
the object both of its author and publisher will be gained. J. R.
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