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5810. NEGROES, Future of.—

I have
supposed the black man, in his present state,
might not be in body and mind equal to the
white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm,
that, equally cultivated for a few generations,
he would not become so.—
To General Chastellux. Washington ed. i, 341. Ford ed., iii, 138.
(P. 1785)