Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-28
Following the Condition Of the Mother.

A Correspondent sends us the following
statement OF II supposed case for the consid-
GRAFTON of those who nnntain the necessity
of the exputriaiion of all whose compilations
ure tinted 10y nn infusion of negro blood in
their veins. Tho case, though suppositionnl,
is true, in II greater or less degree, of n very
large proportion of the colored people, both
bond and free, in this country:
"AhOut fifty years bgo, n young man,
whom shRl name John c., settled in one of
our Southern States and commenced planter.
Amongst other slaves ne purchased one pure
African wench, about eighteen years old,
named susan. lie Ind also hired over
seer, from the State of Vermont, by the ramc
of Stephen. In about year, Susan had n
daughter Jane, who was also the daughter of
Stephen, the young Vermonier; so Jane was
half Vernlonter aud half African.
"When this Jane was about eighteen, she
becamc the mother of Abigail; aud Abigairs
fhthcr wns named Joseph, young man from
tho State Of New York; so Abigail was
one-half New Yorker, one-lourtb VerInonter,
and one.iourih African.
Abigail, at the age of seventeen, became
tile Mother of Phebe aud Phebe wns also
the daughter of Israel, another overseer that
John 4. had hired from Boston so this slave
''"S DHN-HNh DuS'OHlhlI1 OuC-OlHllH
African.
ut came to pass that when Phcbc was in
her twelfth year, John G. was gathered to his
fathers, and his sou William G. carne in
possession OF his plantation, with all It's null
tlinrous slaves, with Phehe amongst the
rest. Now Phebe, nj the age of twenty one,
las daughter hy the name of Sarah, who
is also the daughter of Thomas, an overseer
that William hns hired from Providence,
Rhode Island so this slave Sarah is one
half Rhode Islander, one-iourth Bostoniap,
one-eiehth New Yorker, one.sixteenth Vcr-
mon,cr, and one-sixtcenth African.
"This Sarah, ut tho nge of nineteen, be-
comes the mother Of judy who was the
daughter of Andrew, an Ovcrseer from Ohio.
So Judy will he one hulf Buckeye, one fourth
Rhode Islander, one-eiglnh Bos,onian, one
sixteenth New Yorker, one thirty second
part Ncrnonter, aud one thirty-second part
African.
"Jndy at the age Of fifteen, becomes the
mother of Lavina, who shall he also the
daughter Of Oliver, another oversecr from
Pennsylvania. So this slave Lavina will he
one'lralf Pennsylvania, one-quarter Buck
eye, onc.eislhh II. Islander, one-sixteenih
Bostonian, one thirty second part New
Yorker, one sixty-iourih African. So that,
in little over over forty years from the death
OF John C., we have slave or, perhaps, n
whole family of them, each of whom shall
he sixty-three parts white and but one part
African. One step mOre the children of
this Lrvinn, who ore daughters nlso of John
C., only grandson of old John c., will he one
hundred and twenty seven parts white aud
only one part African. Now if this yonng
woman must be sent 10 the home of her
ancestors, where shall she go? To Pennsyl-
yanin; Ohio; New York Rhode island
Massachusetts; Vermont or Africa? Even
il her mission, in the Providence of God, is
to convert the Heather, can she, without
flying directly in tie face Of that Providence,
neglect her near oi-kin, here nt home, for her
hardly less benighted filr-oif cousins of the
Guinea coast! "a s. Standard.