The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano · Reading edition

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CHAP. V.

Benezet's Account of Guinea, p. 16.

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…nd requires 1000 negroes annually to keep up the original stock, which is only 80,000. So that the whole term of a negro's life may be said to be there but sixteen years![T] And yet the climate here is in every respect the same as that from which they are taken, except in being more wholesome. Do the British colonies decrease in this manner? And yet what a prodigious difference is there between an English and West India climat…

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