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have ſacrificed your judgment to your friendſhip, in ſuppoſing me capable of making any pertinent remarks upon the ſituation of African and Creole ſlaves.—I ſhall however obey your commands, and confine my obſervations to ſuch particulars as have fallen within the reach of my own experience.

A reſidence of many years in Jamaica, during which period I had the direction of a conſiderable number of negroes, and a portion of them my own, is the principal ground upon which I mean to build my obſervations; and as for that period I was very attentive, not only from intereſt, but pleaſure, to their labour, their accommodation, and their wants, I may