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« - - . them, he left him alive in this condition to return to his 

 friends, with whom however the milerable man foon 

 expired. 



This Baron had formerly been the negro flave of a Mr. 

 Dahlbergh, a Swede, who on account of his abilities had 

 advanced him to the rank of a favourite, had taught him 

 to read and write, and bred him a mafon ; he had alfo 

 been with his mafter in Holland, and was promifed his 

 manumiffion on his return to the colony. But Mr. Dahl- 

 . bergh breaking his word with regard to his liberty, and 

 felling him to a Jew, Baron obftinately refufed to work, 

 in confequence of which he was publicly flogged under 

 the gallows. This ufage the negro fo violently refented, 

 that from that moment he vowed revenge againft all 

 I^uropeans without exception ; fled to the woods, where 

 putting himfelf at the head of the rebels, his name be- 

 came dreadful, and particularly fo to his former mafter 

 Dahlbergh, as he folemnly fwore that he fhould never 

 die in peace till he had waflied his hands in the tyrant's 

 blood. 



To thofe who know how greatly mankind are affected 

 by felf-intereft, it will not appear fo extraordinary, as it 

 may to a fuperficial obferver, that thefe black rangers 

 fhould fo inveterately engage againft their friends and 

 countrymen. What will not men do to be emancipated 

 from fo deplorable a ftate of fubjeaion ! and this emanci- 

 pation was obtained upon more certain and advantageous 

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