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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW. 



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suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew 

 that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I 

 suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I 

 was told that this was the case in another instance. Near 

 Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady who kept 

 screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have 



PERNAMBUCO. 



stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily 

 and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to 

 break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little 

 boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horsewhip 

 (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having hand- 

 ed me a glass of water not quite clean. I saw his father 



