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WEST INDIES.
CHAPTER
III.
SKETCH OF T H E C O L O U R E D P O P U L A T I O N .
Character,
habits,
and peculiarities — Conduct
towards their children—Coloured free
servants,
and slave domestics—Correction of errors. T H E coloured population are partly free, and partly slaves: there is a considerable diversity of rank, not only among those who are free, hut also among t h e slaves.
Some of those born
free, have received a tolerably good education in Europe, and there are a few individuals who have enjoyed even superior advantages in this respect; b u t by far the greater number have learnt all they know in the colony.
Although
some of the male sex are excellent accountants, and write well, the females are in general de-