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a White Inhabitant is punifhed with 

 death and their matters, or overfeers, 

 have not only the power of infliding 

 corporal punifhnjent, but are in fome 

 meafure allowed to exercife a right over 

 their lives, fince the putting a Negro 

 to death, is attended only with a pe- 

 cuniary puniihment. In this fituation 

 they are fubje&ed to many complicated 

 ipecies of mifery, expofed to the ty- 

 ranny of the imperious, and luft of the 

 libidinous, and to an inceffant toil, 

 which will have no period but with 

 their lives. This treatment has the ap- 

 pearance of cruelty, and cannot be re- 

 conciled to the principles of juftice and 

 equity ; many things, however, which 

 are repugnant to humanity, may be ex- 

 cufed, on account of their neceffity, for 

 felf-prefervation. 



The expence of maintaining the 

 Slaves, in this climate, is very trifling. 



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