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arms, in addition to their \ifual weapons, bows and ar- 

 rows, they were enabled to commit continual outrages 

 and depredations upon the coffee and fugar plantations, 

 as well from a fpirit of revenge for the inhuman treat- 

 ment which they had formerly received from their 

 mafters, as with a view of carrying away plunder, and 

 principally gunpowder and ball, hatchets, &:c. in order 

 to provide for their future fubfifbence and defence. 



Thefe negroes were in general fettled in the upper 

 parts of the river Copename and Seramica, from the 

 latter of which they take the name of the Seramica 

 rebels, in diftindtion from the other gangs which have 

 fmce revolted. 



Several detachments of military and plantation people 

 were fent againfl them, but were of very fmall efFe6l 

 in reducing them to obedience by promifes, or extir- 

 pating them by force of arms. 



In 1730, a moft fhocking and barbarous execution of 

 eleven of the unhappy negro captives was refolved upon, 

 in the expectation that it might terrify their companions, 

 and induce them to fubmit. One man was hanged alive 

 upon a gibbet, by an iron hook ftuck through his ribs ; 

 two others were chained to flakes, and burnt to death 

 by a flow fire. Six women were broken alive upon the 

 rack, and two girls were decapitated. Such was their re- 

 folution under thefe tortures, that they endured them 

 without even uttering a ligh. — 



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