Document B: Charles Mackay, 1859
Source: Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America: or Sketches of a Tour in the United States and
Canada in 1857-1858, London, 1859.
Note: Mackay was an English visitor to America who wrote about his travels.
This is the prevalent feeling, if not the language of the free North. "We shall not make the black man a slave;
we shall not buy him or sell him; but we shall not
associate with him. He shall be free to live, and to thrive, if
he can, and to pay taxes and perform duties; but he shall not
be free to dine and drink at our board (table) -
to share with us the deliberations of the jury box - to attend us in
our courts - to represent us in the
legislature to attend us at the bed of sickness and pain - to mingle with us in the concert-room, the
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lecture-room, the theatre, or the church, or to marry with our daughters. We are of another race, and he is
inferior. Let him know his place - and keep it."
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