13 INTRODUCTION. 



them in the same state the greatest part of 

 their life. 



Now, with regard to the liberty and 

 equality expected by some who emigrate 

 from these kingdoms to America, they will 

 find that not very pleasant. There is no 

 Englishman who does not think himself 

 above the negro ; but when he comes there 

 he will have to eat, drink, and sleep, with 

 the negro slaves. Hence it is that stories 

 are told of the servants in America wanting 

 to eat and drink in the dining-room with 

 their masters. As the master cannot keep 

 three tables, the white servant thinks him- 

 self (from the boast of the American liberty 

 and equality) more on an equality with the 

 master than with the negro ; and as the 

 negro is under no greater subordination 

 than to acknowledge the man he works for 

 as master, the white man (if he be not a 



