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 raiſed to the authority of drivers upon a plantation, will be more deſpotic and inhuman than the creoles are.

That new negroes, although they ſeem to be cheerful upon their arrival in the colonies, are apparently heavy in body and mind, is an obſervation that cannot be eaſily refuted. That they have not the leaſt idea of perſonal delicacy, or ſhame, when that want of delicacy is expoſed, is too obvious to require an argument. The creoles are not from nature, but example, ſomewhat more decent, and a further refinement in