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and more aptitude for knowledge ; and it is 
this race who ought to have been preferred, 
in order to fpread them among the colonies, 
by granting them every freedom. The 
planters would have favoured, as much as 
they could, the union of thefe ftrangers with 
the Hottentot women ; the latter, feeing 
them free, would not have defpifed them, 
and would have foon been familiarifed with 
them > and thus would have arifen a ge- 
neration of men, who, uniting to the mild 
and peaceable temper of their mothers the 
effential qualities of the beft negroes of Gui- 
nea, would have deftroyed as ufelefs, and 
even dangerous, the cruel chains of flavery" 
in all this part of Africa. 
But thefe means, fo eafy and fo natural, 
the execution of which fome time ago 
would not have met with any obftacle, will 
never be employed. At prefent it is too 
late to make any attempt of this kind ; the 
turbulent race of the baftard whites are too 
numerous, and it may be eafily forefeen that 
they will one day be predominant at the 
Befides, though this proje£l w^ere flill 
|)ra(a;icable, the defire and good intentions of 
the 
