Excerpt from St. Domingo, Its Revolutions and Its Patriots: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Metropolitan Athenæum, London, May 16, and at St. Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854

As in all countries where involuntary servitude exists, morality was at a low stand. Owing to the amalga mation of whites with blacks, there arose a class known as mulattoes and quadroons. This class, though allied to the whites by the tenderest ties of nature, were their most bitter enemies. Although emancipated by law from the dominion of individuals, the mulattoes had no rights shut out from society by their color, deprived of religious and political privileges, they felt their degra dation even more keenly than the bond slaves. The mulatto son was not allowed to dine at his father's table, kneel'with him in his devotions, bear his name, inherit his property, nor even to lie in his father's graveyard. Laboring as they were under the sense of their personal social wrongs, the mulattoes tolerated, if they did not encourage, low and vindictive passions. They were haughty and disdainful to the blacks, whom they scorned, and jealous and turbulent to the whites, whom they hated and feared.

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