IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



thing that would give the slave better health 

 and more strength. All the blacks on the 

 continent of America, and in the \A^cst indies, 

 are fed upon corn in some one or other of the 

 modifications ; and every West Indian, or Ameri- 

 can, will tell you, that tobacco, cotton, coffee, or 

 sugar, could not be raised to any thing like the 

 extent they now are, without the food that pro- 

 ceeds from corn. 



158. Samp. This, though not in such com- 

 mon use as porridge and mush, is very much used. 

 The corn is thumped (I do not know by what pro- 

 cess), as we do oats, to get the skin off it. This is 

 put into a pot with pork, or any other meat, and 

 boiled, just in the same manner as is followed by 

 the people in the country in the making of pea- 

 porridge. They soak the pease over night, and 

 boil them with the meat the next day, and eat the 

 porridge, pea-shells and all. This samp is a food 

 vastly superior to the pea ; all the pulse kinds 

 are flatulent in their consequence; and it is very 

 well known that pease and beans, kidney- beans, 

 lentUes, tares, and, in short, all the pulse kind, if 

 eaten, by man or brute, to any thing approach- 

 ing to excess, are always dangerous, and fre- 

 quently kill. I knew a farmer who was killed by 

 eating Windsor beans along with his men, in the 

 harvest field ; and I had a man who died almost 

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