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IJlands they are treated very cruelly 5 there* 

 fore no threats make more impreflion upon 

 a Negro here, than that of fending him 

 over to the Weji Indies, in cafe he would 

 not reform. It has likewife been frequent- 

 ly found by experience, that when you 

 fhow too much remiffnefs to thefe Negroes, 

 they grow fo obftinated, that they will no 

 longer do any thing but of their own ac^ 

 cord : therefore a ftridt difcipline is very 

 neceffary, if their mailer expe<Sts to be fa- 

 tisfied with their fervices. 



In the year 1620, fome Negroes were 

 brought to North America in a Dutch fhip, 

 and in Virginia they bought twenty of them. 

 Thefe are faid to have been the iirft that 

 came hither. When the Indians who were 

 then more numerous in the country than at 

 prefent, faw thefe black people for the firft 

 time, they thought they were a true breed 

 of Devils, and therefore they called them 

 Manitto for a great while : this word in 

 their language fignifies not only God, but 

 likewife the Devil. Some time before that, 

 when they faw the firft European Ihip on 

 their coafts, they were perfe(ftly perfuaded 

 that God himfelf was in the fhip. This 

 account I got from fome Indians, who pre-^ 

 ferved it among them as a tradition which 

 they had received from their aJiceilors : 

 therefore the arrival of the Negroes feemed 



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