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Show 202 ON THE SLAVERY AND CoMMERCr. ed to colder, or the •vhite inhabitants of Europe to hotter climates, their children born there, are of a dijjermt colour }ron; themfelvu; that is, lighter in the firft and darker in the fecond inftance.· ' As a proof of the fidl:, we /hall give the word.s of the Abbe Raynal, in his admired pul:hc.a tion. * " The children , " 1~a ys I1 e, whtch they, (the Africam) procreate in America, are not fo black as their parents were. After each generation the differ-ence becomes more palpable It · f. " fi bl I f · ts po - ' e, t ut a ter a numerous Cucceffion of generations, th~ ~len come from Africa would not be dt!hngui!hed from thofe of the country, into which they may have been tranfplanted." This circumfiance we have had the pleaCure of hearing confirmed by a variety of perCons: who have been witnefTes of the fact; but particularly by many t intelligent Africans, who • Jufiamond's Ab~t! Raynal, v. 5. P· , 93• t The _auth~r ofthts Efr.1y made .it his bufinefs to inquire of the moft mtelllgent of thofe, whom he could meet with in • Lond~n, as to the authenticity of the faCt All thofe from ~.fmtrua aJfured him that it was ftriaJy true ; thofe from the Weft-oF THE HuMAN SPECIES. 203 who have been parents themfelves in Ame• ·ica, and who have declared that the difference is Co palpable in the 120rthern provinces, that not only they themfelves have confl:antly obCervecl it, but that they have heard it obferved by others. Neither is this variation in the children from the colour of their parents improbable. Tbe children of the b!ackej! Africam are * born white. In this fiate they continue for about a month, when they change to a pale yellow. In procefs of time they become brown. Their !kin fl:ill continues to increafe in darknefs with their age, till it becomes of a dirty, f.11low black, and at 'length, after a certain period of years, glofTy and Chining. Now, if climate has any influence on the mucous.fubjlance of the body, this variation in the children from the co, Weft-Indies, that they had never obfcrved it there; but that they had found a fenflble difference in thcmfelves fince they came to England. • This circumftance, which always happens, fhews that they are defccnded from the fame parents as ourfelves; for had they been a diftinfi fpccies of men, and the blacknefs entirely ingrafted in their conll:itution and fr.lme, there is great reafon to prcfume1 that their children would have been born MacA:. * lour |