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SLAVERY. 



large piece of baize and a straw hat, and as soon 

 as possible marches them off to his estate. I have 

 often in travelling met with many parties going 

 up to their new homes, and have observed that 

 they were usually cheerful ; — any thing is bet- 

 ter than to sit at the door of the slave-merchant 

 in Recife. The new master, too, does every 

 thing in his power to keep them in good humour 

 at first, whatever his conduct may afterwards 

 be towards them. 



The slaves which are usually brought to Per- 

 nambuco are known under the names of An- 

 gola, Congo, Rebolo, Anjico, Gabam, and Mo- 

 sambique. These last have only been imported 

 of late years, owing, I rather imagine, to the 

 difficulty with which slaves have been obtained 

 on the western coast of Africa, caused by the 

 vigilance of the British cruisers in that quarter, 

 and the vexations to which some of the slave- 

 ships have been liable from detention, although 

 they were ultimately suffered to proceed on 

 their voyages. 



The Angola negroes make the best slaves ; 

 many of them have been in bondage in their 

 own country, and therefore to these the change 

 is for the better. Some of them have even 

 served the whites in the city of Loanda, which 

 is the principal Portuguese settlement upon the 

 coast of Africa. But others were free in An- 

 gola, and consequently to these is allotted a life 



