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On my return to St. Thomas, I was apprenticed to the tailoring business, with a provision allowing me to attend school in the morning and the shop in the afternoon, and so continued for five years.
In 1845, Rev. John P. Knox, now pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Newtown, Long Island, came to St. Thomas and took charge of the Reformed Dutch Church. With others of my companions I became a member of a Bible-class under his instruction, and thus was formed a friendship which was of great benefit to me, and gave a turn to all my life. I was fond of composition and often indulged myself in attempts in that way. I was accustomed to take copious notes of his sermons, which especially attracted his attention, and led him to encourage me to prepare for the ministry, after I had formally joined his church, in which I had been baptized and brought up.
In 1850, when Mrs. Knox was about to return to the United States he encouraged me to come also, with the hope of securing for me admission to one of the colleges in this country. I found, however, the deep-seated prejudice against my race, exercising so controlling an influence in the institutions of learning, that admission to them was almost impossible.
Discouraged by the difficulties in my path, I proposed to return to St. Thomas, and abandon the hope of an education, when I received from Mrs. Knox a letter so full of interest in my welfare, and so urgent that I should still strive to become fitted for usefulness in the Christian ministry, and render my life useful to Africa, that I relinquished my purpose of returning to my parents. I decided to accept, of the offer of the New-York Colonization Society to furnish me a passage to Liberia, in hopes to enjoy the advantages of the Alexander High School, then beginning its noble work, at Monrovia, the capital of the Republic.
By the Liberia packet from Baltimore, December 21, 1850...
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 133020199X
- ISBN 13 9781330201992
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages193
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