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PS our Statute Laws provide that white Children as well as black ones being without a proper Protector may be bound out until they arrive as a certain age but the Blacks look upon it as reducing the Children to Slavery again and hence their minds revolt at the idea of letting their Children be bound out so nothing of this kind can be done so as to effect any good result unless done by your Orders
Yours &c
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