viewed as a handicraft trade. The school masters, before the war, had been usually collected from unfortunate European youth, of some school learning, sold for their passage into America. So that to purchase a school master and a negro was almost synonimous. Mr. J—n, and some other citizens of the world, who had been cast among them, had by their writ|ings, influence, and example, brought the knowledge of letters into some repute, since the revolution; but, I believe, those excellent men have yet to lament the general inefficacy of their liberal efforts. This statement, and my own prior expe|rience in school keeping, would have de|termined me rather to have prefered la|bouring, with the slaves on their planta|tions, than sustaining the slavery and con|tempt of a school.When reduced to my last dollar; and beginning to suffer, from the embarrass|ments of debt, I was invited, by a sea 0