The following typographical corrections have been made to this text:
| [Title Page:] | Added missing quotation marks (Our brethren!") |
| [Page 7]: | Added missing end punctuation (Wordsworth.) |
| [Page 9]: | Changed igenuity to ingenuity (excite industry and ingenuity) |
| Changed diastrous to disastrous (have been most disastrous) | |
| Changed intercouse to intercourse (intercourse with Europeans) | |
| [Page 10]: | Added missing end punctuation (spears of the enemy.) |
| [Page 12]: | Changed 'two' to 'too' (becomes almost too harrowing) |
| [Page 14]: | Added missing quotation marks ("The officers insisted) |
| Changed kness to knees (against our knees) | |
| [Page 16]: | Changed stong to strong (a very strong party) |
| Changed consequnce to consequence (consequence of the severe) | |
| Added missing quotation marks (old candle-boxes.") | |
| [Page 23]: | Changed consience to conscience (a matter of conscience) |
| [Page 26]: | Changed Jeferson's to Jefferson's (the son of Jefferson's) |
| [Page 33]: | Added missing quotation marks (for safe-keeping.") |
| [Page 46]: | Added missing quotation marks ("All that a slave) |
| [Page 51]: | Added missing comma (his or her master, mistress) |
| [Page 60]: | Added missing quotation marks (_at least nine_.") |
| [Page 85]: | A set of quotation marks appears omitted but it was not possible to determine where they were to have been added. |
| [Page 99]: | Changed agreeaable to agreeable (an agreeable novelty) |
| [Page 137]: | Changed 'them-themselves' to 'themselves' (pledge themselves) |
| Removed stray quotation marks (their qualifications?) | |
| [Page 145]: | Removed duplicate word 'been' (to have been the meekest) |
| [Page 146]: | Changed opnion to opinion (influences public opinion) |
| [Page 157]: | Added missing end punctuation (in the year 1734.) |
| [Page 159]: | Changed Geoffrroy to Geoffroy (Lislet Geoffroy) |
| [Page 183]: | Added missing punctuation (to negro property; what would) |
| [Page 192]: | Added missing quotation marks ("among one hundred) |
| [Page 195]: | Added missing quotation marks (your honor," said the Corporal) |
| [Page 211]: | Changed 'to' to 'too' (too much respect) |
| [Page 216]: | Changed onr to our (an allusion to our) |