I presume as much more is now due.
Mr. Bosworth in England, the firm of Clarke & Co., and Mr. Bentley,
have all offered me an interest in the sales of their editions in
London. I am very glad of it, both on account of the value of what
they offer, and the value of the example they set in this matter,
wherein I think that justice has been too little regarded.
I have been invited to visit Scotland, and shall probably spend the
summer there and in England.
I have very much at heart a design to erect in some of the Northern
States a normal school, for the education of colored teachers in the
United States and in Canada. I have very much wished that some
permanent memorial of good to the colored race might be created out of
the proceeds of a work which promises to have so unprecedented a sale.
My own share of the profits will be less than that of the publishers',
either English or American; but I am willing to give largely for this
purpose, and I have no doubt that the publishers, both American and
English, will unite with me; for nothing tends more immediately to the
emancipation of the slave than the education and elevation of the
free.
I am now writing a work which will contain, perhaps, an equal amount
of matter with "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It will contain all the facts and
documents on which that story was founded, and an immense body of
facts, reports of trials, legal documents, and testimony of people now
living South, which will more than confirm every statement in "Uncle
Tom's Cabin.
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