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people of colour, or negroes, who are found 

 in considerable numbers with their families in 

 different parts of both provinces. They were 

 formerly slaves in America, and came over with 

 the loyalists, at the conclusion of the revolu- 

 tionary war. A few of them have settled on 

 lands, and accumulated by their industry, some 

 property, but in general neither they, or their 

 descendants are good settlers. They are ge- 

 nerally employed as menial servants, while 

 they are considered, as a degraded race, and 

 looked upon by the whites, as persons who have 

 no ascertained situation in society. Africa is 

 their home ! their country ! as there is every 

 inducement, so every encouragement should 

 be given to their returning emigration. The 

 American Colonization Society is actively en- 

 gaged in the humane and benevolent object 

 of transporting to Africa, those blacks who are 

 willing to go, with those who are emancipated 

 by their white masters. Though impediments 

 and trials have attended their first efforts, yet 

 the success which has followed the colonies of 

 recaptured slaves, formed on the coast, by the 

 British Government, and British liberality, 

 promises every encouragement to perseverance 

 on the part of America. A ship has just sailed 

 with a number of these injured men, whose 



