I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never had a black woman for either a slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes.
he seems to be saying, that he is largely indifferent to the negro, or more so that he is prepared to turn a blind eye to them
but he does not foresee the prospect of being neighbours or married to the negro
surely if he had met a woman he loved he would not of seen her as a "negro" first ?
but as the love of his life that just so happened to be a negress
sounds like he made a premeditated decision that he would not want a negress wife, simply because she is a negress
or perhaps the poor mite was not very good at explaining himself but held the most genuine convictions towards the
He didn't believe one should own another human being, but he did think those humans he didn't want people to own were lesser humans than whites.
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