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owners none of them may sell beer or wine or brandy. 

 There are here many free negroes and mulattoes. 

 They get their freedom if by their own industry they 

 earn enough to buy themselves off, or their freedom is 

 given them at the death of their masters or in other 

 ways. Not all of them know how to use their free- 

 dom to their own advantage : many give themselves up 

 to idleness and dissipations which bring them finally to 

 crafty deceptions and thievery. They are besides ex- 

 traordinarily given to vanity, and love to adorn them- 

 selves as much as they can and to conduct themselves 

 importantly. 



The feast of the Sunday is strictly observed at 

 Charleston. No shop may keep open ; no sort of game 

 or music is permitted, and during the church service 

 watchmen go about who lay hold upon any one idling 

 in the streets, (any not on urgent business or visiting 

 the sick), and compel him to turn aside into some 

 church or pay 2 shillings 4 pence ; no slave may be re- 

 quired to work on this day. 



The population in the back parts of South Carolina 

 has for some time been considerably increasing 

 through emigrations from the northern states.* The 

 most remote inhabitants, who in Pensylvania and Vir- 

 ginia are called ' Back- Wood-Men,' are here denomi- 



* The rapid increase of the population in this state has in- 

 duced the government to establish a new town, called Co- 

 lumbia, 140 miles from Charleston, in the interior country, 

 whither the Assembly and the courts of justice are to be re- 

 moved towards the end of the year 1789. The public buildings 

 are already begun and town-lots were last April sold at public 

 auction for 20-21 Pd. Sterling. Extract of a letter from 

 Charleston, 1787. 



