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��WEST INDIES.

��PART III.

ARGUMENT.

The Love of Country, and of Home, the same in all Ages and among all Nations. — The Negro's Home and Country.— 3fungo Parke. — Progress of the Slave Trade. — The Middle Passage. — The Negro in the West Indies. — The Guinea Captain, — The Creole Planter. — The Moors of Barbary. — Buccaneers. — Maroons, — St Domingo. — Hurricanes. — The Yellow Fever.

There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night ;

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