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When a freeman has become a slave by any one of the causes before
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When A Freeman Has Become A Slave By Any One Of The Causes Before Mentioned, He Generally Continues So For Life, And His Children (If They Are Born Of An Enslaved Mother) Are Brought Up In The Same State Of Servitude.

There are, however, a few instances of slaves obtaining their freedom, and sometimes even with the consent of their

Masters; as by performing some singular piece of service, or by going to battle, and bringing home two slaves as a ransom; but the common way of regaining freedom is by escape; and when slaves have once set their minds on running away, they often succeed. Some of them will wait for years before an opportunity presents itself, and during that period show no signs of discontent. In general, it may be remarked, that slaves who come from a hilly country, and have been much accustomed to hunting and travel, are more apt to attempt their escape than such as are born in a flat country, and have been employed in cultivating the land.

Such are the general outlines of that system of slavery which prevails in Africa; and it is evident, from its nature and extent, that it is a system of no modern date. It probably had its origin in the remote ages of antiquity, before the Mahomedans explored a path across the Desert. How far it is maintained and supported by the slave traffic, which for two hundred years the nations of Europe have carried on with the natives of the Coast, it is neither within my province nor in my power to explain.

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