“An anecdote of Sir William Gooch, sometime [i.e., former] Governor of
Virginia”
which I stumbled upon in *The Dublin Magazine for the Year 1764*:
Sir William Gooch being in conversation with a gentleman in a street of
Williamsburgh,
returned the salute of a negro, who was passing by about his master’s
business. Sir,
said the gentleman, does your honour descend so far as to salute a
slave? Why (replied
the governor) Yes: I cannot suffer a man of his condition to exceed me in
good manners.
Jon Kukla
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