in his holy keeping, direct thee, thou poor untaught and degraded African slave, to a full conception of these the words we have written for your express benefit. Our care and regard of you will be that of a fostering parent toward a beloved offspring. The hatred of your oppressor we fear not, nor do we his power, or any vile machinations that may be resorted to by incendiaries towards us. We hold ourself, with the aid of our God therewith, at all times ready to encounter, trusting but in God, our Creator, and not in ourselves, for a deliverance from all worldly evil.

Peace and Liberty to the Ethiopian first, as also all other grades of men, is the invocation we offer to the throne of our God. REDNAXELA

DATED FROM THE ETHIOPIAN'S ROCK, IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR FROM ITS FOUNDATION, THIS THIRTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A.D. 1829

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