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Lewis Tappan
American
Businessman
About the author
The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Time
#Clothes
The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Public
#Missionaries
#Money
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!
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#May
#Poor
#Language
#Joy
We will persevere, come life or death.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Will
#Death
They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Now
#Hope
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Character
#Meetings
#Attention
There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Now
#Church
#Theology
The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Curiosity
The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#African
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.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Men
#Prison
#Strangers
#Amusement
Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
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.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Men
#Body
#Company
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,
American
Businessman
#People
#Will
#March
#Custom
#Excitement
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.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Country
#Population
#Effect
#Promises
If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
Lewis Tappan,
American
Businessman
#Work
#Will
#Violence