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9085. WEST INDIES, Negroes in.—[further continued].

Inhabited already by a
people of their own race and color; climates
congenial with their natural constitution; insulated
from the other descriptions of men;
nature seems to have formed these islands to
become the receptacle of the blacks transplanted
into this hemisphere.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iv, 421. Ford ed., viii, 105.
(W. 1801)