20 INTRODUCTION. 



Madam among themselves. It is the same 

 with respect to the manner of wearing their 

 hair ; almost every one, child or man, has 

 his hair tied. The negro the same ; but, 

 as the hair of the negro is short, it is cus- 

 tomary to hang lead to it during the week 

 that it may have length enough to tie on 

 the Sunday. 



In the different publications which I have 

 seen, some of these unpleasantries are for- 

 gotten. But the fact is, that the men that 

 publish those favourable accounts of Ame- 

 rica are frequently emigrants from this 

 country, who are hired by Americans to 

 contract with captains of ships to bring 

 over such as are unable to pay their passage, 

 that they may buy them when they arrive 

 in America ; which is an absolute slave- 

 trade, and much worse than the punish- 

 ment for convicts, The same sort of men 



