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In the year 1 £00 the United States sloop-of-war Ganges came into the port of Philadelphia with two slavers she had captured and 150 negro men and women, entirely naked, were accommodated in Independence hall, where an appt.il was made to citizens to clothe them, to which there was a pronjpt response.These negroes were chiefly Mandin-gos. tall, well-formed, and with beautiful bronze skins, prisoners-of-war to the neighboring tribes, who sold them. Anrong the lot there were a few Con gos. They and their descendants never left Philadelphia, and between the latter and southern negroes there is an antipathy as strong as death.Having br^n for the most part adopted by the members of the Society of Friends, they and their descendants became imbued with the domestic virtues and acquired quite elegant and aristocratic manners. Among them alcne of all the colored population of the United States is to be found an occasional negro old maid. While they intermarried with one another, in the first generation there were seldom more than two or three children in a family, and in the third generation but one. Though not church people, as are the majority of the colored race, they have mild festivities in their own circle and a sort of community of feeling that induces them to take care of their old or sick, but the most remarkable characteristic is that some of them possess the art of hoodoo.In lt;1 ti n I nf
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Conway Log Cabin Democrat
Conway, Arkansas, US
Mon, Oct 18, 1909
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