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that the females who had, fo merrily, found- 

 ed her requiem, had been her fud-affociates. 

 They had full faith in Jenny's tranfmi- 

 gration to meet her friends, at her place o£ 

 nativity; and their perfuafion that death was 

 only a removal from their prefent to their 

 former home — a mere change from a ftate 

 of flavery to a ftate of freedom — ^did not 

 barely alleviate, but wholly prevented the 

 natural grief and afflidion arifing from the 

 lofs of a friend. They confidently expected 

 to hear from poor Jenny, or to know her in- 

 fluence, in the way they mofl defired, before 

 morning. 



The faith of thefe poor ignorant flaves, 

 regarding a happy tranfmigration, after death, 

 would feem calculated to lead them to the crime 

 of fuicide ; and, accordingly, this efFe£l: of their 

 fuperftition is faid not to have been unfrequent 

 among them. A tale Is told of a Angular reme- 

 dy having been pradifed againft this fatal ex-- 

 pedient of the negroes. Several individuals 

 of a gang having hanged themfelves to efcape 

 from a cruel mafter, and others being about 

 avoid his feverities by fimilar means, he 



