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"
Whence
came
the
'
Waldeck
?
'
"
he
asked
.
"
From
Melbourne
.
"
"
Then
you
are
not
slaves
?
"
"
No
,
sir
!
"
the
old
black
answered
quickly
,
as
he
stood
up
straight
.
"
We
are
subjects
of
the
State
of
Pennsylvania
,
and
citizens
of
free
America
!
"
"
My
friends
,
"
replied
Captain
Hull
,
"
believe
me
that
you
have
not
compromised
your
liberty
in
coming
on
board
of
the
American
brig
,
the
'
Pilgrim
.
'
"
In
fact
,
the
five
blacks
which
the
"
Waldeck
"
carried
belonged
to
the
State
of
Pennsylvania
.
The
oldest
,
sold
in
Africa
as
a
slave
at
the
age
of
six
years
,
then
brought
to
the
United
States
,
had
been
freed
already
many
years
ago
by
the
Emancipation
Proclamation
.
As
to
his
companions
,
much
younger
than
he
,
sons
of
slaves
liberated
before
their
birth
,
they
were
born
free
;
no
white
had
ever
had
the
right
of
property
over
them
.
They
did
not
even
speak
that
"
negro
"
language
,
which
does
not
use
the
article
,
and
only
knows
the
infinitive
of
the
verbs
--
a
language
which
has
disappeared
little
by
little
,
indeed
,
since
the
anti-slavery
war
.
These
blacks
had
,
then
,
freely
left
the
United
States
,
and
they
were
returning
to
it
freely
.
As
they
told
Captain
Hull
,
they
were
engaged
as
laborers
at
an
Englishman
's
who
owned
a
vast
mine
near
Melbourne
,
in
Southern
Australia
.
There
they
had
passed
three
years
,
with
great
profit
to
