Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 473
with the slaves,and learned to read by his own efforts. His mother, marrying in Abbe-ville village, carried him there, where he waited on some lawyers, whobecame so much impressed with his talent, that, in defiance of the pro-hibition of the law, they took pleasure in instructing him. He wouldhear… … Fig. 585,-Bev. H. M. Tukner. THE PAPUANS. 467 Esq., a lawyer of Boston, and a gentleman of fine educationand good talents. There are those, as we have said, who rest their hopes forthe future of this country upon a mixed race, growing out ofa union between the black and the white races, with such…
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