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See Benezet's "Account of Guinea" throughout.
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Notes to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano — Reading edition
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When I was in Smyrna I have frequently seen the Greeks dance after this manner.
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The bowl is earthen, curiously figured, to which a long reed is fixed as a tube. This tube is sometimes so long as to be born by one, and frequently out of grandeur by two boys.
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When I was in Smyrna I saw the same kind of earth, and brought some of it with me to England; it resembles musk in strength, but is more delicious in scent, and is not unlike the s…
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See Benezet's Account of Africa throughout.
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See also Leut. Matthew's Voyage, p. 123.
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An instance of this kind happened at Montserrat in the West Indies in the year 1763. I then belonged to the Charming Sally, Capt. Doran.—The chief mate, Mr. Mansfield, and some of …
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Page 178 to 216.
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Philos. Trans. Nº 476, Sect. 4, cited by Mr. Clarkson, p. 205.
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Same page.
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Acts, c. xvii. v. 26.
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He had drowned himself in endeavouring to desert.
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Among others whom we brought from Bayonne, two gentlemen, who had been in the West Indies, where they sold slaves; and they confessed they had made at one time a false bill of sale…
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Some people have it, that sometimes shortly before persons die their ward has been seen; that is, some spirit exactly in their likeness, though they are themselves at other places …
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Thus was I sacrificed to the envy and resentment of this woman for knowing that the lady whom she had succeeded in my master's good graces designed to take me into her service; whi …
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"The Dying Negro," a poem originally published in 1773. Perhaps it may not be deemed impertinent here to add, that this elegant and pathetic little poem was occasioned, as appears …
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These pisterines are of the value of a shilling.
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Mr. Dubury, and many others, Montserrat.
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Sir Philip Gibbes, Baronet, Barbadoes.
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Benezet's Account of Guinea, p. 16.
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Acts, chap. xii. ver. 9.
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John xvi. 13, 14. &c.
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Acts iv. 12.
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See the Public Advertiser, July 14, 1787.
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