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1. JON BEN SOLOMON, an African, of an uncommonly retentive memory, was son of the Mahometan king of Bunda, on the Gambia. He was taken in 1730, brought to America, and sold in Maryland. By a train of extraordinary adventures he was at length taken to England, where his dignified and pleasing manners, with his superior talents, gained him many friends, and among others Hawstone, baronet, for whom he translated several Arabic manuscripts. 
2. After being received and treated with respect at the court of  St. James, the African company reconducted him to Bunda. One of his uncles who resides there, embracing him said, "During sixty years, thou art the first slave that I have seen return from the American Isles." He wrote many letters to his friends in Europe and America, which were translated and perused with interest. At his father's death, he became his successor, and was much beloved by his subjects.

1. ANTHONY WILLIAM AMO, born in Guinea, was brought to Europe when very young, and the princess of Brunswick, Wolfenbuttle, took chargeof his education. He pursed his studies at Halle in Saxony, and at Wittemberg, and so distinguished himself by his talents and good conduct, that rector and council of the university of the last mentioned town, gave a public testimony of the same in a letter of congratulation. 
2. Amo, skilled in the knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages, delivered with success, private lectures on philosophy, which are highly praised in the same letter. In an abstract published by the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, it is said of this learned negro, that having examined the systems of ancients and moderns, he selected and taught all that was best of them. 
3. He became a Doctor, and in 1744 published dissertations on some subjects which obtain the approbation of the University of  Wittemberg, and the president, when speaking of one of them, says, "it underwent no change, because it was well executed, and indicates a mind exercised in reflection." But what became of him afterwards, is not recorded in the work from which these extracts are taken.

1. BERONICIUS, a chimney-sweeper in Holland, united that occupation, which is considered the most unfavourable to mental improvement, with that  of a poetic genius, and wrote many pieces of Latin verse. And his poems in two books, entitled, Georgas, or the Battle between the Peasants and the Great, has been translated and reprinted at Middlebury, 1766. 

1. JAMES DERHAM, originally a slave in Philadelphia, was sold by his master to a physician, who employed him in his shop as assistant in the preparation of drugs. During the war between America and England, he was sold to a surgeon, and by that surgeon to Doctor Robert Dove, of New Orleans. He learned in English, French, and Spanish languages, so as to speak them with ease.
2. He was received a member of the English church, and in the year 1788, when he was about twenty-one years of age, he became one of the most distinguished physicians at New-Orleans. "I conversed with him on medicine," says Dr. rush, "and found him very learned. I thought I could give him information concerning the treatment of diseases, but I learned more from him that he could expect from me."
3. The Pennsylvania Society established in favour of the people of colour, thought it their duty in 1789 to publish these facts, which are also related by Dick-

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