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Excerpt from Narrative of a Visit to the West Indies, in 1840 and 1841 Most persons who have ventured to decide what the mental and physical capabilities of the African race are, have not taken into consideration the cir cumstances by which they have been surrounded, both in their own country and abroad, nor have they placed a just estimate upon those individual cases where they have exhibited talents, which would be considered eminent in any civilized so ciety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.