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laws of chriftianity to keep flaves. There 

 are likewife feveral free Negroes in town, 

 who have been lucky enough to get a very 

 zealous quaker for their mafter, who gave 

 them their liberty, after they had faithfully 

 ferved him for fome time. 



At prefent they feldom bring over any 

 Negroes to the Englijh colonies, for thofe 

 which were formerly brought thither have 

 multiplied confiderably. In regard to their 

 marriage they proceed as follows : in cafe 

 you have not only male but likewife fe- 

 male Negroes, they muft intermarry, and 

 then the children are all your flaves ; but 

 if you poflefs a male Negro only, and he 

 has an inclination to marry a female belong- 

 ing to a different mafter, you do not hinder 

 your Negro in fo delicate a point -, but it is 

 no advantage to you, for the children be- 

 long to the mafter of the female; it is 

 therefore advantageous to have Negro- 

 women. A man who kills his Negro muft 

 fufFer death for it : there is not however an 

 example here of a white man's having been 

 executed on this account. A few years 

 ago it happened that a mafter killed his 

 flave ; his friends and even the magiftrates 

 fecretly advifed him to leave the country, 

 as otherwife they could not avoid taking 

 him prifoner, and then he would be con- 

 B b 4 demned 



