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9.

has demonstrated that the white population, brought
to a 40th. to that of Blacks, is enough to ensure
peacefulness. In supposing 300,000 Slaves in Saint
Domingue that [experience] fears they inspire by
the manner in which they are placed there; they are not
ever more than three or four hundred together,
almost always [?] and generally placed at
distances that will not allow them any communication;
there is such a slave of the Port de Paix who has never
seen and who will never see one who exists four
leagues from him, let alone those who are
at a greater distance. The Empire
that whites have over slaves is one that Beings endowed with a cultivated intelligence must have and put into action over other beings deprived
of knowledge and also stunned by servitude.
There is therefore no more confederation to fear
from the Negroes against the Whites than
that of animals given to the one instinct against
those who direct them by mastering them, but to
never give birth to this possibility it is at least