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CHAP, bar; belides which a white man was fcourged before the 

 court houfe, by the public executioner, who is in this 

 country always a black. The circumftance which led 

 me to take particular notice of this affair, was the fhame- 

 ful injuftice of fliewing a partiality to the European, who 

 ought to have been better informed, by letting him ef- 

 cape with only a flight corporal punifliment ; while the 

 poor uneducated African for the fame crime, viz. ftealing 

 money out of the Town Hall, lofl his life under the moft 

 excruciating torments, which he fupported without heav- 

 ing a ligh or making a complaint ; while one of his com- 

 panions with the rope about his neck, and juft on 

 the point of being turned off, uttered a laugh of con- 

 tempt at the magiftrates who attended the execution. 

 I ought not in this place to omit, that the negro who 

 flogged the white man infli6ted the punifliment with 

 the greateft marks of commiferation, Thefe tranfa6lions 

 almoft induced me to decide between the Europeans and 

 Africans in this colony, that the firfl were the greater 

 - . barbarians of the two— a name which tarniflies Chrif- 

 tianity, and is beftowed on them in too many corners of 

 the globe, with what real degree of juftice I will not take 

 on me to determine. 



Having teflified how much I was hurt at the cruelty 

 of the above execution, and furprized at the intrepidity 

 with which the negroes bore their punifliment, a decent 

 looking man fl:epped up to me, Sir, (faid he) you 

 " are but a new-comer from Europe, and know very little 



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