Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

they had a chance, bring decisions which would
bind about them rites which would cause much
suffering, not only to the ones whom they term
guilty of breaking the laws of their state, but all the
colored people everywhere would be placed in a
position of surveillance, and under cruel treatment
of the white people, that would be no less than
slavery. They have been treated as chattels,
regarded as not much above the dumb animals, to
do just as their masters told them to do. This has
degraded all their powers, and different methods of
labor altogether must be pursued toward them than
where the colored people have had greater
advantages of schooling, and have learned to read.
As the colored people have not been educated
to read and have not been uplifted, their religion is
more of bodily exercise than inward piety. There
can not be anything like the kind of labor pursued
toward them as that bestowed upon the people
whose religion is not outward workings. The Lord
will look upon this poor, neglected, downtrodden
race with great compassion. Everything of a
character to set them in a position of opposition to
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