Now, love was Miss Amelia Sedley's last
tutoress, and it was amazing what progress our young lady made under that popular teacher.
By this and some other of my talk, my old
tutoress began to understand me about what I meant by being a gentlewoman, and that I understood by it no more than to be able to get my bread by my own work; and at last she asked me whether it was not so.
our females and the most respectable were persuaded that it was piety to teach negroes to read and write, to the end that they might read the Scriptures-many of them became
tutoress in Sunday schools and, pious distributors of tracts, from the New York Tract Society...