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SLAVERY. 



Pernambuco has never experienced any serious 

 revolt among the slaves ; but at Bahia there have 

 been several commotions. * I believe that Ba- 

 hia contains fewer free people than Pernambuco 

 in proportion to the number of slaves ; but I 

 cannot avoid attributing the quietude of the lat- 

 ter in some measure to the circumstance of few 

 of the Gold Coast negroes being imported to it, 

 whilst at Bahia the principal stock of slaves is 

 from that part of Africa. It is by the Mina 

 negroes in Bahia that the revolts have been made, 

 and by the Koromanties in Jamaica, in I76O.T 

 These are, I believe, the same people under 

 different names, and they are represented as 

 possessing great firmness of mind and body, and 

 fefociousness of disposition. 



The Obeah-men of the Columnian islands, and 

 the Mandingueiros of Brazil t, are evidently, 



question. — Mr. Edwards says that it is a disease and not a 

 habit. — History of the West Indies, vol.ii. p. 14-1. 



Labat is of opinion, that it is a habit and not a disease. — 

 Nouveau Voyage, &c. torn. ii. p. 11. 



* There was one in 1814, and another in February of the 

 present year, 1816. 



-j- Edwards's History of the West Indies, vol. ii. p. 64: 



£ The negroes who are obtained in the province of Sene- 

 gainbia, " are known to the West-Indian planters by the 

 general name of Mandingoes." — History of the West Indies, 

 vol. ii. p. 50. 



" There is a sort of people who travel about in the coun- 

 try, called Mandingo-men (these are Mahommedans) ; the) 



