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Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Mass; Anti-Slavery Society: Presented Jan; 26, 1842
Now, a system which has thus grown with the growth, and strengthened with the strength of a young and ?ourishing repub lic for a period of two hundred years, is not to be crushed, if morally assailed, by a. Single blow, but by patient toil, unwaver ing faith, and protracted exertion. Nor is the spirit of caste easily destroyed in any country; and wherever it exists, or in whatever form, it furnishes one of the most serious obstacles which Christianity has to encounter. The Brahminical caste in India is not more haughty or malignant than American prejudice against a sable complexion. The missionaries in India know how extremely difficult, how almost impracticable it is, to induce the natives to become Christians, on account of their dread of losing caste; and all who, in this country, have dared to treat the colored race with respect and courtesy, as members of the great human family, know from bitter experience how such con duct is generally regarded. The overthrow of American preju dice, therefore, must necessarily be the work of many years, even under the most favorable circumstances. Being generated and fostered by slavery, not much progress can be made in its extirpation until slavery itself be destroyed.
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