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prevented them, by the happy expedient of 

 threatening to hang himfelf, alfo, and to 

 tranfmigrate, v/ith thern, carrying the whip 

 in his hand, into their own countiy ; where 

 he would punifli them ten times more fe- 

 verely than he had hitherto done. The ftra- 

 tagem is faid to have fucceeded. Finding 

 they could not, thus, efcape from the tyran- 

 nic lafh, they refolved, rather than receive 

 difgraceful ftripes among their African friends, 

 to continue their exiftence under all the hard- 

 fliips of flavery. 



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