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community , and have accumnlated property / which last is triumphantly quoted as a proof , beyond all other proofs , of their moral excellence . Nay , still more , some black families i& Canada live quite ' respectably / and actually maintain white free servants in their employment . All this is no doubt very true ,
but the disputants are involved in a very common error . They take examples of individual negroes , or of small bodies of negroes , and without stating any thing more of their characters , than that they are simply negroes , proceed to reason from such imperfect data , as though the instances they selected were perfect samples of the whole negro population . This is about as accurate as if one were to take an individual of any particular country in Europe ,
as a sample of the whole European population . There are as many varieties in the negro races , as there are in the European races , and it would be as fair to take a Calmuck as a specimen of the English nation , or a physically perfect Englishman , as a specimen of the Calmuck nation , as it is to argue that the negroes
are all bad , because some of them are ferocious , or that they are all good and industrious , because some of them are industrious and have thereupon grown rich . It is much to be lamented , that our data are so very imperfect as to the original peopling of America and the islands with negroes , but what little is known , will at any rate help to throw more light upon the matter in
question * The principal African tribes which have served for the supply of the accursed slave trade , have been the Coromantyns , the Mandingoes , and the Eboea , The former , I have understood , were usually , if not cannibals , closely verging upon that state , and the most ferocious of all the African tribes . They were naturally remarkable for the elongated muzzle , and the low retreating
forehead ; artificially remarkable for their teeth ., which were filed to resemble those of a shark or of a saw , as if for the purpose of seizing their prey ; and in addition to this , they were marked with three or four cicatrized gashes at the outer angles of the eyes . The Mandingoes , on the contrary , were a far finer race ; they possessed a totally different physiognomy , less of the animal faculties , and
more mental skill * They possessed far nobler qualities , and at the same time that they were as brave as the Coromantyns , were far more humane and intelligent . The Eboes neither possessed the intellect of the Mandingoes , nor the ferocity of the Coromantyns . They were mostly patient drudges , after they had got over the pain of their first captivity ; not liking work , but stirred
to perform it by fear of the whip . These were the negroes who so commonly attempted to drown themselves at sea during the passage , in the expectation that thereby they would get back to their own country . They were also accustomed to kill themselves by eating dirt , and they were the class peculiarly liable to be operated on by the superstition of the Obeab . As the principal
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462 On the MinxHtrial Plan far the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/22/
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