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GOVERNMENT, CARE, 
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TREATMENT of the NEGROES. 
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I now come to the most important part of my 
subject, the treatment of that class of people from 
whose labour the revenue of the Planter is de¬ 
rived—the Labourers; a term far more appropri¬ 
ate than that of Slaves, when applied to a set of 
people, who possess (the head of each family of 
them at least) their house, their home, their plan¬ 
tation, their poultry, their pigs—whose private 
property is as perfectly secured to them as is that 
of their master—who, in sickness, are attended by 
the same physician, and, during that period, par¬ 
take of the luxuries of the master’s cellar and table, 
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