Lewis Tappan American Quotations

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

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.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

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.

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.

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

We do not believe that any went away with the same views, and the same feelings in relation to any one in whose veins courses African blood.

Two or three of the men, besides one of the little girls, are natives of Congo, which is on the coast just south of the equator.