Short Notes from the Papers. |
| The practice of importing Negroe servants into these kingdoms
is said to be already a grievance that requires a remedy, and
yet it is every day encouraged, insomuch that the number in
this metropolis only, is supposed to be near 20,000; the main
objections to their importation is, that they cease to consider
themselves as slaves in this free country, nor will they put
up with an inequality of treatment, nor more willingly perform
the laborious offices of servitude than our own people, and
if put to do it, are generally sullen spiteful, treacherous,
and revengeful. It is therefore highly impolitic to introduce
them as servants here, where that rigour and severity is impracticable
which is absolutely necessary to make them useful. |
(Gent. Mag. Oct, 1764) |
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