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 be introduced to reſtrain their power, to bend them to the obedience of juſtice, to make them ſenſible that negroes are men, that their lives, their property is ſacred; and that the leaſt infringement of either, unleſs authoriſed by legal cenſure, or caſes of neceſſity, will be as ſeverely puniſhed as the ſame offences would be in other countries: and that negroes might the better receive the full