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kind treatment of negroes under humane mat- 

 ters occurred to me ; 1 recolle&ed the com- 

 fort and harmony of the flaves I had lately 

 feen at " Profit." I contemplated their free- 

 dom from care, and the many anxieties of 

 the world ; and I remembered the happinefs 

 and contentment expreffed in their fangs 

 and merry dances : but — all in vain ! The re- 

 pugnant influence would not thus be cheated. 

 With fuch diftrefs, before my eyes, all pal- 

 liatives were unavailing. The whole was 

 wrong, and not to be juftified. I felt that I 

 execrated every principle of the traffic. Na- 

 ture revolted at it ; and I condemned the 

 whole fyflem of llavery under all its forms 

 and modifications. 



When purchafed, the flaves were marked 

 by placing a bit of firing, or of red or white 

 tape round their arms or necks. One gen- 

 tleman, who bought a confiderable number of 

 them, was proceeding to diftinguifh thofe he 

 had feleded, by tying a bit of red tape round 

 the neck, when I obferved two negroes, who 

 were Handing together entwined in each others 

 arms, watch him with great anxiety. Pre- 

 fently he approached them, and after making 



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