. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. !â ; :i ::h. 306 tieceember 1748. Negroes in town, who have been lucky enough to get a very zealous Quaker for their mafter, who gave them their liberty, after they had fa
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. !â ; :i ::h. 306 tieceember 1748. Negroes in town, who have been lucky enough to get a very zealous Quaker for their mafter, who gave them their liberty, after they had faith- fully fervcd him for feme time. At prefcnt they feldom bring over any Ne- groes to the EngliP:> colonies, for thofe which wtTc formerly brought thither, have multiplied confiderably. In r -^ to their marriage they proceed as follows : cafe you have not only m:ile but likewife female Negroes, they muft in- termarry, and then the children are all your fiaves: but if you polVefs a male Negro only, and he has an inclination to marry a female be- longinLT to a different maacr, you do not hinder you'i- Negro in fo delicate a point; but it is no advantage to you, for the children belong to the m-Rer of the female ; it is therefore advantageous to have Negro-women. A man who kills his Negro mud fuffer death for it; there is not however an example here of a white man's ha- vino- been executed on this account. A few years ago it happened that a mafter killed his flave ; his friends and even the magiftrates fe- cretlv advifed him to leave the country, as other- wife'they could not avoid taking him pnloner, and then he would be condemned to die accord- ino- to the laws of the country, without any holies of faving him. This lenity was employed towards him, that the Negroes might not have the falisfaaion of feeing a mafter executed tor killing his ftave; for this would lead them to all forts of dangerous defigns againft their maf- terj and to value themfelves too much. Africiii. Ple
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