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CHAP. XXXVII. 1742. other, in the Campos dos Parecis, as the highest tract of ground in Brazil is called, from a people once the most numerous of all its tribes; but now the few who have escaped from death and slavery are incorporated with the Cabixis and Mambares. These Campos are a succession of sandy downs in long ridges, one higher than another, and of very gradual ascent. The soil is so loose that horses sink over the fetlock at every step; and when they attempt to crop the plants which

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CHAP. XXXIX. 1752. by his father Philip? But if time and change have indeed brought about such friendship between old enemies that the Spaniards are desirous to gratify the Portugueze, there are ample tracts of country to spare, and let those be given them. What, .. shall we resign our towns to the Portugueze, .. the Portugueze, .. by whose ancestors so many hundred thousand of ours have been slaughtered, or carried away into cruel slavery in Brazil? This is as intolerable to us, as it is

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CHAP. XL. 1755. lated the gradual abolishment of slavery in Brazil as well as in the mother country. It was also decreed, that for the mutual advantage of the Indians and the people, .. the former that they might acquire habits of industry and enjoy its fruits, the latter that they might find labourers, .. the price of labour should be regulated by the Governor and the judicial authorities of Para and S. Luiz, upon the principle which was established in Lisbon, where, for example, if a

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CHAP. XLIII. pellation may be applied to persons who feel none of the evils of slavery, and are subject to none of its restraints. Cazal. 1. 84. Francisco Alves. They believe in an Intelligent Creator of all things; but they offer him no worship, and seem not to regard him either with love or with fear. The invisible power, to whom they apply for a knowledge of what is to befall them in sickness, or in war, is supposed to be an inferior Deity, named Nanigogigo; and their jugglers, who are

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, from time to time, was derived from a different cause. Not the Orellana alone, but most or all of the rivers which join it in the upper part of its course through the Portugueze dominions, were infested by the Muras; and weaker hordes, though it was long before they could be persuaded that Indian slavery was indeed abolished, sometimes for the sake of protection from these merciless enemies, took refuge in the Portugueze settlements. Ribeiro. MS. Province of the Solimoens. The most remote of the

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CHAP. XLIV. Happy condition of the better Colonists. power which the system of slavery permits, having fallen into humane hands, was used as the means of beneficence; where this was the case, the want of liberty was scarcely felt, and literature was the only thing needed to make such a state enviable. The establishment of a wealthy colonist was of such an extent, that the people formed a community of themselves larger than many towns or parishes; and if their intercourse with the rest of the

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CHAP. XLIV. prehend them, they have not collected in any force in these Captaincies, since the memorable destruction of their great establishment under the Zombi. Free Creole Negroes. Koster's Travels. 396. Free people of colour. Koster on Slavery. 336. Mamalucos. Koster's Travels. 395. Gypsies in Pernambuco. Koster's Travels. 383. The free Creole Negroes in this province are a fine race of men, mostly employed in mechanical trades. There are two regiments in Pernambuco, in which men and

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Barreto, Governor General of, 549; Rio de Janeiro separated from the general government, 551; Mascarenhas, Governor General, 553; Obidos, Governor General, ib.; ravages of the small-pox in, 554; Alexander de Sousa Freire, Governor General, 558; three Bishopricks established, 570; question respecting the boundary of, 572; foundation of Nova Colonia, ib.; Antonio de Sousa de Menezes, Governor, 581; superseded by the Marquez das Minas, 585; pestilence, 586; Indian slavery again abolished in, 603

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The Jesuits unpopular for opposing the slavery of the Indians 261 They obtain powers from Madrid to act among the natives upon their own system 263 Settlement in Guayra 264 The Jesuits enter Guayra and found the first Reduction 26 Artifices of a slave dealer 267 Miracles ib. Lorenzana goes among the Guaranies 269 First of the Parana Reductions founded 270 A Visitor arrives from Spain 271 He nullifies his instructions 272 And introduces a new form of oppression 273 Effect of the Jesuits

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at S. Luiz 474 The people, in consequence of this discourse, consent to an arrangement concerning the slaves 482 Religious ceremonies at S. Luiz 483 The Capitam Mor deceives Vieyra and evades the laws 484 Vieyra writes to the King 486 Success of the Deputies at Lisbon 488 Vieyra sails for Lisbon 489 His danger upon the voyage, and providential deliverance 490 His interview with the King 491 Arrangement respecting slavery referred to a Junta 494 A Missionary Board established ib. Decree in favour

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commerce. This was especially felt at Maranham, where there had been but few Negroes, till this time for want of capital: many were now imported, and one immediate consequence was that the laws in favour of the Indians began to be observed, because the Negroes were not only a hardier race but more willing to labour, more active, and more intelligent. One slavery was thus exchanged for another; the system of kidnapping was transferred from S. America to Africa, and the horrors of the middle passage

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Portugueze and Dutch in, 232; interference of England, and settlement of peace, 249; Jesuits from, invited by the bishop of Tucuman, 251; Paulistas, 300; destruction of the natives in, 305; tumults against the Jesuits in, 325; Paulistas upon the Braganzan revolution wish to elect a King for themselves, 327; Maranham in a worse state than the older Captaincies, 449; abolition of Indian slavery renewed by Joam IV. 455; Vieyra arrives in Maranham, 467; missionary board established, 494; [page] 90

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III. desires the conversion of the Brazilian savages, i. 213; his death, 268. Joam IV. proclaimed King of Portugal, i. 576; orders Pernambuco to be relinquished to the Dutch, ii. 169; motive for those orders, 173; audience of Antonio Vieyra with, 195; death of, 243; renews the abolition of slavery among the Indians, 455; appoints Vieyra his preacher, 459; prevents his sailing to Maranham, 461; repents the permission afterward given, 464; Vieyra's first letter to him, 468; another letter of advice

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English in, 578; Stedman's derivation of the word, 656; affairs of, ii. 31; proceedings respecting slavery in, 501; insurrection at Belem, 536; transactions at Curupa, 538; great sense of insecurity in the settlement, 649; jealousy of the French and Dutch, ib.; expedition from, to Mato Grosso, iii. 350; arrival of the party at S. Rosa, 353; at S. Miguel, 354; misfortunes at Ilha Grande, 356; return, 359; intercourse with Mato Grosso, ib.; progress of the Portugueze from, 362; course of savage

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home, 490; interview with the King, 491; arrangements respecting slavery reported to a Junta, 498; decree in favour of the Indians, 496; the king wishes to keep him in Portugal, 498; obtains permission to return to Maranham, 500; seeks to open a communication with Seara, 511; his preparations [page] 94

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Accustomed to a long slavery, as well under the domination of their own sovereigns as under that of the first conquerors, the natives of Mexico patiently suffer the vexations to which they are frequently exposed from the whites. They oppose to them only a cunning, veiled under the most deceitful appearances of apathy and stupidity. As the Indian can very rarely revenge himself on the Spaniards, he delights in making a common cause with them for the oppression of his own fellow-citizens

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system of encomiendas was introduced. The Indians, whose liberty had in vain been proclaimed by Queen Isabella, were till then slaves of the whites, who appropriated them to themselves indiscriminately. By the establishment of the encomiendas, slavery assumed a more regular form. To terminate the quarrels among the conquistadores, the remains of the conquered people were shared out; [page] 13

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language is always the same whenever it is proposed to allow the peasant to participate in the rights of a free man and a citizen. I have heard the same arguments repeated in Mexico, Peru, and the kingdom of New Granada, which, in several parts of Germany, Poland, Livonia, and Russia, are opposed to the abolition of slavery among the peasants. Recent examples ought to teach us how dangerous it is to allow the Indians to form a status in statu, to perpetuate their insulation, barbarity of

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, to solicit peace and friendship, to submit themselves to our sovereign, and to ask pardon for having taken up arms against us, which had proceeded from their dread of the machinations of Montezuma, who was always desirous of reducing their nation to slavery. Their country, he said, was very poor, as it possessed neither gold, jewels, cotton, nor salt; the two latter they were prevented from obtaining by Montezuma, who had also deprived them of all the gold their fathers had collected. Their

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of Vavaoo, who exercised a very tyrannical deportment towards his people; at length, when it was no longer to be borne, a certain chief meditated a plan of insurrection, and was resolved to free his countrymen from such odious slavery, or to be sacrificed himself in the attempt: being however treacherously deceived by one of his own party, the tyrant became acquainted with his plan, and immediately had him arrested. He was condemned to be taken out to sea and drowned, and all his family and

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It ought always to be kept in mind that the slave-trade, and not slavery, has been attempted to be abolished; that both exist in several parts of the world in the full possession of their horrid attributes; and, to use the words of an eloquent writer, that from slavery in its mildest form, oppression, injustice, and cruelty are inseparable. These crimes have, from the beginning of it, formed its basis, and without them it can no more subsist than a house without a foundation. I visited the

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heads and uniform countenances, (uniform from equal expression of despondence,) exhibited a frightful picture of aggregate misery. It may be thought, perhaps, that since the slave-trade is diminishing, and the state of slavery ameliorating, these remarks are unnecessary; but, in my opinion, the. subject is not an exhausted one. Those countries that have consented through the interference of England to its abolition, have done so most reluctantly, and in no instance from principle. They all carry

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, without a question whether slavery ought to weigh only on men with a black skin and frizzled hair.The archipelago of the Canaries was divided into several small states hostile to each other. Oftentimes the same island was subject to two independent princes, as happens in the islands of the South Sea, and wherever society is not highly advanced. The trading nations, influenced by that hideous policy which they still exercise on the coast of Africa, kept up intestine warfare. One Guanche then

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nacing position excited alternately the apprehensions of the opposite parties; and the gradual or instantaneous abolition of slavery has been proclaimed in different regions of Spanish America, less from motives of justice and humanity, than to secure the aid of an intrepid race of men, habituated to privation, and fighting for their own cause. I found in the narrative of the voyage of Girolamo Benzoni a curious passage, which proves of how old a date are the apprehensions caused by the

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state of the blacks with that of the serfs of the middle ages, and with that state of oppression under which some classes still groan in the north and east of Europe? Those comparisons, those artifices of language, that disdainful impatience with which even a hope of the gradual abolition of slavery is repulsed as chimerical, are useless arms in the times in which we live. The great revolutions which the continent of America and the Archipelago of the West Indies have undergone since the