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Jewry affociates in London) whofe pretences to phi lanthropy were as grofs a mockery of human reafon, as their conduct: was an outrage on all the feelings of our nature,and the ties which hold fociety toge ther ! I T is indeed true, that negro-rebellions have here tofore arifen in this and other iflands of the Weft In dies, to which no fuch exciting caufes contributed — but it is equally certain, that thofe rebellions always originated among the newly-imported negroes only; many of whom had probably lived in a ftate of free dom in Africa, and had been fraudulently, or for cibly, fold into flavery by their chiefs. That cafes of this kind do fometimes occur in the flave trade, I dare not difpute, and I admit that revolt and infurrection are their natural confequences. B U T , in St. Domingo, a very confiderable part of the infurgents were—not Africans, but—Creoles, or natives. Some of the leaders were favoured domefticks among the white inhabitants, born and brought up in their families. A few of them had even re ceived thofe advantages, the perverfion of w h i c h , under
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