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liable to be fold as any other piece of furni- 

 ture in the houfe : for, in Barbadoes, the ofF- 

 fpring of a woman in flavery becomes the ab- 

 folute property of the owner to whom the 

 mother belongs, whether it be black, yellow, 

 or white ; as the law knows no period when 

 the child of a flave fhall be born free, how- 

 ever removed from the African : nor can 

 the mother, under any circumftances of 

 fubfequent liberation, claim her infant 

 from its owner, even though it fhould 

 be of fairer fkin than the faireft European. 

 Thus are the natural ties of our fpecies 

 torn afunder; and the deareft attachments, 

 and pureft affedions of the heart cruelly 

 broken down ! Babes are feparated from their 

 parents, and mothers robbed of their children, 

 by this unatural appropriation of human fub- 

 ftance ! 



The manners, and the circumftances 

 attending the fituation of this mulatto were 

 ftrongly interefting* Mer whole deportment 

 befpake a degree of delicacy and refine- 

 ment, together with a fuperiority of mind and 



