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eights op slaves. 
£rv produce gave a hope of extraor- 
leSf th?; J l^o'^ever, be unjust not to acknow- 
eclge in this struggle between private interests and the 
views of wise policy, the desires and the priucinles iiiani- 
fested by some inhabitants of the island o/cX^ eTther i 
f -^-rpoWu! 
jf jT , , ^ ^lumanity of our lec;iMlation ” savs M 
d Arango nobly,* in a memoir written in 1796“ m-ante the 
Station . tlfp nn ^VT?/ “f -y”'?? according to his own 
inclination ; the possibility of purchasing his l?bertv+ bv his 
lih Pay™g, with an acquired property^foi- the 
hberty of his wife and ehildren.§^ xWithSdiim t e 
isdom and mildness of Spanish legislation, to how many 
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Comulado. ^ ^ i'ateno, Otdor hunorario y synilico del 
t The right of bitscar amo. When n «Io.„a i,,. r j 
who will purchase him, he mav m.ii tl.» ™ I ^ r master 
plain ; such is the sense and snirH of a law whom he has to com- 
as are all the laws that nrotLt the sliv ' *’®?®*’reut, though often eluded, 
privilege of 6iXV«l.'’7he black of en aJd 
meet, a question, which n dvilised F„ron» f ' 
aometimi sold, is more ^quIvS 
[Will you buy me Sir ?] ^ ^ expressed , Quiere I m. comprarme ? 
KS 1“ t““* tS ?r" 
laws and institutions favour manumission in ? *“® Spanish 
SS""*- “• —I '~i trriisj 
b,Lj.. i„ i-3.JL„ShLh£'““; r-i* '" >«?«, ■">' »' 
tisiDg him, could n'it evpn h» ei* i i,m killed his negro in chas- 
wilfully, shoTd pay L^pou^ ^ ^lave 
Saint Christopher’s, of Tlth V78? h ^ 
*arcn Htn, 1784, begins with these words: 
