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"_Lucy_ -- Are all these wretches slaves? _Stanley_ -- All sold, they and their posterity, all slaves. _Lucy_ -- O! miserable fortune! _Bland_ -- Most of them know no better, but were Born so, and only change their masters. " _Oroonoko_
The party were up at an early hour on the ensuing morning, that they might enjoy the delightful freshness of the air, which so soon evaporates before the scorching rays of the tropical sun. They were joined at breakfast by the doctor who attended the estate, and who had called in to announce the birth of a little negro boy in the early part of the night.