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 diſlike the cold; nay they will frequently ſleep ſo near the fire, as to have their cloaths burnt, without perceiving it. Proper people ſhould be provided to waſh their cloaths, and dreſs their food. They ſhould be fed, for the firſt twelve months at leaſt, under the eye of the overſeer; they ſhould be worked in ſuch a manner as to make their employment rather a pleaſure than a toil; they ſhould be generally engaged, (but not on Sundays, for that day ſhould be always their own) in planting, cleaning and gathering proviſions; they ſhould be early taught to have ſome pride in, and idea of independency, that they may look forward to their own houſe, their own ground, and in time, their own family. They may now and then be drawn off to do ſlight jobs upon the eſtate; this will make them handy, and tempt them to form connections there; and ſo often as this ſhall happen, the idea ſhould be encouraged; as a negro thus willingly domeſticated, will probably be of more durable ſervice than two or three removed to it at once from the ſhip. It ſeems to me indiſpenſably neceſſary, that the negroes of their own