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SLAVERY. 



comforts with which it is in the power of their 

 fellow-slaves to supply them. The old negroes 

 are addressed by the term of pat and mat, father 

 and mother. The masters likewise add this term 

 to the name of their older slaves, when speaking 

 to them. That the generality of the slaves 

 should show great attachment to their masters, 

 is not to be expected ; why should they ? The 

 connection between the two descriptions of 

 persons, is not one of love and harmony, of 

 good producing gratitude, of esteem and re- 

 spect ; it is one of hatred and discord, of dis- 

 trust and of continual suspicion ; one of which 

 the evil is so enormous, that if any proper feel- 

 ings exist in those who are supposed to benefit 

 from it, and in those who suffer under it, they 

 proceed from our nature, and not from the 

 system. 



It will be seen from the above statement, 

 that the slaves of those parts of Brazil which I 

 have had opportunities of seeing, are more fa- 

 vourably situated than those of the Columbian 

 islands ; but still they are slaves, and in this 

 word is included, great misery, great degrada- 

 tion, great misfortune. 



