stood her mistress, a white woman, with a large stick in her
hand. She was undressed except her petticoat and chemise,
which had fallen down and left her shoulders and bosom bare.
Her hair was streaming behind, and every fierce and
malevolent passion was depicted in her face. She too, like
my hostess at Governo [another striking illustration of the
_dehumanizing_ effects of Slavery,] was the very
representation of a fury. She was striking the poor girl,
whom she had driven up into a corner, where she was on her
knees appealing for mercy. She shewed her none, but
continued to strike her on the head and thrust the stick
into her face, till she was herself exhausted, and her poor
victim covered with blood. This scene was renewed every
morning, and the cries and moans of the poor suffering
blacks, announced that they were enduring the penalty of
slavery, in being the objects on which the irritable and
malevolent passions of the whites are allowed to vent
themselves with impunity; nor could I help deeply deploring
that state of society in which the vilest characters in the
community are allowed an almost uncontrolled power of life
and death, over their innocent, and far more estimable
fellow-creatures."--(Notices of Brazil, vol. ii. p.
354-356.)

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In conclusion, I may observe that the history of Mary Prince furnishes a
corollary to Lord Stowell's decision in the case of the slave Grace, and
that it is most valuable on this account. Whatever opinions may be held by
some readers on the grave question of immediately abolishing Colonial