" Now, is it in ignorance, or through disingenuousness, that Mr.
Froude has penned this argument regarding exceptions? Surely, in the
vast area of American life, it is not possible that he could see
Frederick Douglass alone out of the cluster of prominent Black
Americans who are doing the work of their country so worthily and so
well in every official department. Anyhow, Mr. Froude's history of
the Emancipation may here be amended for him by a reminder that, in
the British Colonies, it was not Whites as masters, and Blacks as
slaves, who were affected by that momentous measure. In fact, 1838
found in the British Colonies very nearly as many Negro and Mulatto
slave-owners as there were white. Well then, these black and yellow
planters received their quota, it may be presumed, of [120] the
L20,000,000 sterling indemnity. They were part and parcel of the
proprietary body in the Colonies, and had to meet the crisis like the
rest. They were very wealthy, some of these Ethiopic accomplices of
the oppressors of their own race. Their sons and daughters were
sent, like the white planter's children, across the Atlantic for a
European education.
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