Note 4 — CHAP. XXIX.
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I should not here omit to mention that in the colony of Surinam all emancipated slaves are under the following restrictions, viz.
They are (if males) bound to help in defending the settlement against all home and foreign enemies.
No emancipated slave, male or female, can ever go to law at all against their former master or mistress.
And finally, if any emancipated slave, male or female, dies in the colony, and leaves behind any possessions whatever, in that case one quarter of the property also goes to his former owners, either male or female. ↑