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The Italians and Genoeſe are alſo but few, and are chiefly employed in cutting down the trees on the plantations that are in woods: ſome of them carry about the country articles of grocery, tobacco, and other matters, which they diſpoſe of principally to negros on eſlates; by which means they make a good livelihood.
The other free inhabitants of this iſland are free meſtiffs, free mulattos, free negros, and native Indians.
The free people of colour are chiefly of French extraction, and moſt of them came from the iſlands of that nation; from whence they have retired on account of the ſeverity of the French laws, which prohibit them from wearing ſhoes, ſtockings, ornaments, or any dreſs after the faſhion of white people.
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