INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM

By

The Reverend John Elmore DuBois

Edited by Elizabeth A. DuBois
(c) 1998  DuBois Publishing Co, Simsbury, Connecticut. All rights
reserved.

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[continued]

Men grew rich, and financially great.  They were ambitious in count,
their slaves by hundreds and their cotton bales by thousands.  The
"squatter" soon gave place to long lines of cabins, and thus the whole
country was dotted with inviting villas, the domestic peace and
happiness of which were calculated to inspire the observer, no matter
From whence he came, with the justice and humanity of slavery while the
cruelty practiced by a few, justified the severe chastisement
administered by "Uncle Tom's Cabin," false as it is in many points.

	The Negro population was now great, but still it grew; speculators from
Virginia and other States crowded, bringing large droves which they
would sell out and return for more.  As the Negro population increased,
the whites removed to the towns and villages, and thus left this
beautiful region Africanized.  It presented a grand field for missionary
enterprise.  The M.E. Church, South, seized upon it, and organized the
mission.  Ministers were sent to them, houses were built, the gospel was
preached, children baptized, marriage encouraged, and the rite
solemnized.  Where they had no houses of their own, our Churches were
thrown open to them, and they received the gospel with us.

[to be continued]

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