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Mulattoes

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
February
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Whose children are the ? This queson has oftcn been asked by honest and veil disposed persons. The followinj; exract of a letter in the Enaneipator from scienlific gentleman of the west to a Iember of Cungress d..ted Cincinnati, )ec. 23, 18-41, it conlains as gooJ an nswerto the above qtiestion as we have een. "During my sojournings here I have Vequently noticed iliat there were ruuny oung mulaltoes a disproportion to the umber of colored people, especiaHy tu ie colored children. 1 could never get a solution of the mysery until whhin a few days. On sugeMing the circum?tance to an intelligent olored man, he informs me that, "At this me there are numeroua mulatto chilren, the offspring of Southern 'gentlemen' nd thelr female slaves, residing in this ity, whoare emoncipated and sent here jy the ir fathers. ín many mstancca they nd Vheir mothers are emancipated and ome together; n-others, again, they are ent into families of free blacks, are furished with the necessary suppliesof moley, and are mainiained at school or are ut to soine useful ernplóymarit. Even iouse9 and lots have in some iustances been given them." "This course, ï presume, is pursued by these chivalric Southern gentlemen' in or der to prevent their children from becoming sïaves. ilowever commendable their molives may be, I for one wish that our free States should rpase to be the outlet for the productlons of their vices and debaucheries.'