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Or the oiler band, after read ng the above note

to sm English missionary, be #sid that in bis opinion

the immorality of the people and the iadeent ex-

posure of the person in the ioterior, proceeded

from lack of an innate sense of modesty and

deeency—not from the babits of slave Lie or the

laws of the Colonists, **1 have often traveled,”

he said, from Cape Haytien to this place, and

“yet, in all wy tripe, have seen only one wom

who exhibited. when teea in her washing garb,

“any sense of modesty. She had only a eloth

around her loius, as usual, and when sce saw me

she tried to eoneenl herself, Often, when cross.

“ing rivers and seeing them in that state, 1 Lave

“turned my eyeranay out of shisme for them; but

“they never exhibited soy delicacy about 1t—they

would continue to stare at me without a particle

of shame.”

1 agree with both of these opinions, Donbtlecs

the slave code, and their life as slaves, did not

tend to civilize them—but it must also ba remem.

bered that previous to their being slaves they were

savages, Navages have no scruples about the ex-

posure of their persons: the negro Women, there-

tore, never knew, and were never tanght, the re.

quirements of civilization in that respect. Yet,

while they seemed to be without shame, as my En-

glish friend sad, it would be unjust to beiiese that

they were shaméless in the senee of willfully m-

wodest, They deem it, doubtless—their actions

proved it—no more immodest to expose their

bodies, from the loins npward, than our belles—

when the faehion says so—consider it indecent to

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New-York daily tribune. (1859). New-York [N.Y.], 1859-08-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1859-08-01/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York daily tribune, 1859-08-01.