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 The whites, although they had gained adrantages
 were scarcely less than the blacks agitated with mutual
 eions. While they lost time and energy in dis,.ord, the me
 color asumed a formidable position und-r one of their
 named Beauvaia. The movement had an excuse in the cr9
 ties which the colonists perp-tratedl at the Cape, where sao
 teen mulattoes had been put to death without even the- forma
 a trial, and where daily, Ifuitire slaves, ev. n the most Caithk
 were, on seekii; an as.luml in th, ity, oIrtiwith hanged, a
 having escaped the dJang.rs of being maaiicr e.I' nn their r
 by some of tlie white s.outs who soured tht ne-i;lhborhood.
 On evrry side tie grosijst injuiti.e pretailed; i rime was i
 paid with crime; vengeiance fUAloweld ven-2:.an:e; the civilian
 master degraded himself no less than thil neglic.ted slain
 between the two stood the mulatto, the enemy of both, a
 prepared to sacrifice either Iir hi- own ag:rnrarnliz0mnu-t.
 The ease with which the mulitto Lbtray..J the rights of t
 negro may be exemplificl in the icae :-1' a nuimbr of' m
 denominated the Swiss. In the rank, r'L the meni ot' i.-.lor wi
 three hundred slaves, who received the title of the Swi<
 from the resemblance which their serrnie bore to that of i
 Swiss under the Frrni:h mornarthy. L'ed by the mi-n of ed
 in their warfare against the whiti;., th,:y were surrendered
 the fIrmer at tLe demand o' the litter the wo:anent, fort
 began to I'rown on the mulatto caljr C('lin-iting o-f men,
 color as well as nrgr'i', they wcre thrown on the coast
 Jamaica. Driven thi'nLe, they -ither prrihli-d in the oca
 or on the inhospitable shores of their I[rth, pre -.nting in tbd
 sufferings and destruction a proof of the inhumanity of t
 whites and the perfidy of the mulaitoes.
 Disorder continued to increase. It would Lie a t,.dious
 well as painful task to recount the mialdeeds that were done I
 all sides, at the Cape by the coloni ts, at La Grand.: Hin iire I
the negroes, and in the West by the wuilattote-. The leaders
the blacks began to fe-l that ti. hali ha n ianl a lhopelri- eaul
The libbraT:.u of the n gr.: %I..ulati n was not po.:ible in t