SLAVERY. 



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from their practices, the same description of 

 persons. The religion which the Brazilian slaves 

 are taught, has likewise a salutary effect upon 

 this point, for it tends to lessen or entirely re- 

 moves the faith which was previously entertained 

 by the Africans respecting the incantations of 

 their countrymen ; the superstitions of their na- 

 tive land are replaced by others of a more harm- 

 less nature. The dreadful effects of faith in the 

 Obeah-men which sometimes occur in the British 

 colonies, are not experienced in Brazil from the 

 Mandingneiros : belief in their powers is certainly 

 not extinguished, and indeed even some of the 

 Creoles imbibe a notion of the efficacy of their 

 spells, but the effects of these are not generally 

 felt. 



The slaves who are employed in Recife may 

 be divided into two classes ; household slaves, 

 and those which pay a weekly stipend to their 

 owners proceeding from the earnings of some 

 employment which does not oblige them to be 

 under the immediate eye of the master. The 

 first class have little chance of gaining their free- 



do not like to work ; they go from place to place ; and when 

 they find any chiefs or people whom they think they can make 

 any thing of, they take up their abode for a time with them, 

 and make greegrees, and sometimes cast sand from them, 

 for which they make them pay." — Correspondence of Mr. 

 John Kizell in the Sixth Report of the Directors of the 

 African Institution, p. 136. 



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