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5824. NEGROES, Sleep and amusements.—

They seem to require less sleep. A
black, after hard labor through the day, will be
induced by the slightest amusements to sit up
till midnight, or later, though knowing he must
be out with the first dawn of the morning.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 381. Ford ed., iii, 245.
(1782)