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NEGRO. 
and throughout the continent of America fince 1787 they 
employ no flaves, but keep.free blacks in their pay. In 
the year 1795, MY. David Barclay, of London, a Quaker 
we luppofe, emancipated twenty-eight flaves which had 
accidentally come into his pofl'efiion, and lent them to 
Philadelphia to learn trades; (fee Monthly Mag. for Nov. 
1814.)—Slavery was prohibited at Madras, by an adl of 
the governor and council, fo early as the year 1S02; 
and, in the beginning of 1805, the marquis of Wellefley 
abolilhed flavery throughout Britilh India.—The Dutch 
planters of Ceylon have adopted fome judicious regu¬ 
lations for the gradual abolition of flavery ; all children 
born of flaves, after the 12th of Auguft, 1816, are to be 
confidered free, but to remain in their matter’s lioufe, and 
lerve him for board, lodging, and clothing; the males till 
they are fourteen, and the females till twelve; after which, 
to be fully emancipated. 
Accidental Varieties among Negroes. —We have fpoken 
of the permanent varieties among the blacks, as the proper 
Negroes, the Caffres, the Hottentots, and the Moors. The 
Albinos, or white negroes, have alfo been deferibed and 
ffeprefented in our Aril volume. It remains to notice a few 
occafional or accidental varieties, fports of nature as it 
were; which we (hall colled); from the volumes of the 
Philofophical Transactions. 
The firfl: is of a negro-bey who w'as dappled in feveral 
parts of his body with white fpots. This boy r was about 
eleven years of age when the account was taken: he was 
born in the upper parts of Rappahanock-river, in Virginia. 
His father and mother were both perfedt negroes; and 
the boy himfelf, till he became to be three years old, 
was in all refpedls like other black children; and then, 
without any diftemper, he began to have feveral little 
■w hite fpecks on his neck and breaft, which increafed with 
his age, both in number and fize ; “ fo that now, from the 
upper part of the neck, where fome of his wool is become 
white, down to his knees, he is every-where dappled with 
white fpots, fome of which are broader than the palm of 
a man’s hand. They are very white, at lead: equal to the 
fkin of the faireft lady ; but of a paler white, and do not 
Ihow flefli and blood fo lively through them as the Ikin 
of white people; the reafon of which may be, that the 
Ikin of a negro is much thicker. His face, arms, and 
legs, are perfedlly black.” Phil. Tranf. for 1697. 
The next cafe we fliall feledl is that of a remarkable 
alteration of colour in a negro-woman. “ A cook-maid 
in Col. Barnes’s family, a native of Virginia, about forty 
years of age, remarkably healthy, of a ltrong and robuft 
eonflitution, had her (kin originally as dark as that of the 
mod fwarthy African ; but, about fifteen years before, that 
membrane in the parts next adjoining to the finger-nails 
became white. Her mouth foon underwent the fame 
change, and the phenomenon had fince continued gra¬ 
dually to extend itfelf over the whole body ; fo that every 
part of its furface became more or lefs the fubjedt of this 
furprifing alteration. At the above date, (1759.) four 
parts in five of the Ikin were white, fmooth, and tranf- 
parent, as in a fair European, elegantly Ihowing the 
ramifications of the fubjacent blood-veffels : the parts re¬ 
maining footy, daily loll their blacknefs, and in fome 
meafure partook of the prevailing colour ; fo that a very 
few years would, in all probability, induce a total change. 
The neck and back, along the courfe of the vertebrae, 
maintained their priftine hue the mod, and in fome fpots 
proclaimed their original ftate: the head, face, and bread, 
with belly, legs, arms, and thighs, w'ere almod wholly 
white; the axillae party-coloured; the Ikin of thefe parts, 
as far as white, being covered with W'hite hair; where t 
dark, with black. Her face and bread, as often as the 
aflions anger, fhamep&c. had been excited in her, had 
fen immediately obferved to glow with blufiies ; as alfo 
when, in purfuance of her bufinefs, die had been expofed 
to the adiion of the fire on thefe parts, fome freckles 
had made-their appearance. The woman declared, 
that, excepting about feventeen years before, when fhe 
was delivered of a child, flte had never been afflidted by 
any complaint of twenty-four hours continuance; and 
that flie had never been fubjedl to any cutaneous dif- 
order, nor madeufeof any external application, by which 
this phenomenon might be produced.” Tranfmitted by 
Mr. James Bate, furgeon in Maryland; and printed in the 
Phil. Tranf. vol. li. 
In the year 1765,8 white negro-boy was exhibited before 
the Royal Society; and the report was written by James 
Parfons, M.D. F.R.S. It appeared, that the parents of 
this boy were brought, among many others, above 300 
miles from an inland country, to the Gold Coalt in Africa, 
and put on-board a fliip bound to Virginia, where thev 
arrived in the year 1755. They became the property of 
Col. Benj. Chambers, of Cumberland.-coun.ty, Pennfyl- 
vania; and were then employed on an eftateof the colonel’s 
in Virginia; but the colonel lived with his family in Penn- 
fylvania, where he fold the boy to his then mailer; of 
which faff, Dr. P. faw the bill of fale that palled between 
the colonel and him. The parents were perfectly black, 
and both very young when landed ; and the woman, being 
alked how far lhe was gone with child, anfwered, fo as 
to be underllood to mean, that lhe was with child fome- 
thing more than fix moons, and that this was her firfl: preg¬ 
nancy. They alfo declared, that they had never feen a 
white perfon before they came to the fliore where Eu¬ 
ropeans where employed in buying black flaves. The 
owner of this boy was Mr. James Hill Clark, Whom Dr. P. 
informed of what had palled between Dr. Franklin and 
himfelf on this fubjedl:; for he paid him a vifit, and in the 
courfe of converfatipn he informed him, that, while he 
was in England before, he received a letter from his lady, 
in which was fome of the wool of a white negro-child’s 
head, by way of curiofity; and when he mentioned it to 
Mr. Clark, he aflured him that this very boy was fliown in. 
Pennfylvania as a great rarity: and that, to his know¬ 
ledge, the wool fent in the letter was taken from this 
child’s head. He was born about fix or feven weeks after 
his parents landed in Virginia, in the year 1755 ; and was 
purchafed by Mr. Hill Clark of Col. Chambers in 1764, 
fo that he appeared not to be quite ten years old ; and his 
mother had had two children after, who were both as 
black as the parents. 
Now, though this deviation of colour in the child, 
from the contrary hue of both parents, was very Angular, 
and fomething preternatural, yet inliances of the fame 
kind had happened before. There was one about four 
years before in London, which was a white girl, fomething 
younger than this boy, but exadlly fimilar in colour, wool, 
See. and was faid, by the perfon who made a (how of her, 
to have been the offspring of a black father and mother. 
Dr. P. did not go to lee her ; but he read an advertifement 
concerning her, feveral times in the public papers, wherein 
lhe was called a white-negro-girl; and was informed by 
thofe that faw her, that lhe anfwered the aefeription in the 
advertifement very truly. She was Ihown in town for 
fome months every day. 
To this cafe he fubjoins two others, one of which he 
faw himfelf, and the other was given him by a gentleman 
of undoubted veracity ; which, though they differ in fome 
circumftances from the above, yet have fo much relation 
to each other, as will prevent their being cenfured as di- 
greflions from the fubjedt. The firfl: was of a black man 
who married a white woman in York feveral years ago; 
of which he had an account from an eye-witnefs. She 
foon proved with child, and in due time brought forth 
one entirely black, and in every particular of colour and 
features refembling the father, without the lealt partici¬ 
pation from the mother. This was thought a very Angu¬ 
lar cafe, becaufe people naturally expedt the iffue of fuch 
a marriage would be tawny; which indeed is the ufual 
effedt produced by the congrefs of black and white per- 
fons. The fecond cafe was of a black man, fervant to a 
gentleman 
