Clarissa Dormer

Clariſsa Dormer.
Pub. Oct 14-1808, by I. Harris, Corner S t. Paul’s Church Yd.
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LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS, SUCCESSOR TO E. NEWBERY, AT THE ORIGINAL JUVENILE LIBRARY, AT THE CORNER OF ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD.
1808.
H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars.

The parents of Clarissa Dormer were natives of one of our West India settlements. They were not black enough to be esteemed descendants of those unhappy beings whom perfidy or avarice brought into the hands of Europeans, nor yet so fair as to pass for natives of our temperate clime. Born amid the tears and groans of their fellow creatures, and taught by example to tyrannize over the miserable Africans, they were callous to their sufferings, and unmindful of the barbarities inflicted upon them.
One only child (Clarissa) was the fruit of their marriage, and heiress to their vast possessions.