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fy our curiosity, [more particularly when
it is borne in mind that they are rather
reserve towards Europeans]. Still I would
add, should some of you form too low
an estimate of the Blacks of this country
[words crossed out] being so utterly degraded & ignorant as
hardly worth our inquiry, there is no
human race so deeply sunk or so utterly
savage as not to present some few features
of interest. These may yet be traced
in all the races of the earth, however
degenerate certain assimilations to the
rest of the human family, some kindred
feelings & sympathies & desires, certain
qualifications and susceptibilities, intellect-
ual & other faculties, together with some
failings, infirmities and inherent evil
propensities which all [word crossed out] tend to prove
that they partake of the same nature as ourselves
that they are our kindred. Indeed those who
have studied the human races more carefully