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enough with them to know this to be true, 

 both from my own employ and seeing 

 them continually at work for others. 

 The first time I walked with General 

 Washington among his negroes, when 

 he spoke to them, he amazed me by 

 the utterance of his words. He spoke 

 as differently as if he had been quite 

 another man, or had been in anger. 

 Though you have them slaves all the day, 

 they are not so in the night. I compare 

 them to cats. The men are lecherous and 

 the women lewd. All the black men I 

 employed used to be out all night, and re- 

 turn in the morning. It is a very common 

 thing to have the apartments for the ne- 

 groes at a small distance from the house : 

 and it appears necearssy, or the doors 

 would be left open all night. Notwith- 

 standing the many irregularities to which 

 these negroes subject their master, it is al- 

 lowed that they are the best servants- in 

 America, since the establishment of inde- 

 pendency, liberty and equality. There 



