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[Title Page:]Added missing quotation marks (Our brethren!")
[Page 7]:Added missing end punctuation (Wordsworth.)
[Page 9]:Changed igenuity to ingenuity (excite industry and ingenuity)
Changed diastrous to disastrous (have been most disastrous)
Changed intercouse to intercourse (intercourse with Europeans)
[Page 10]:Added missing end punctuation (spears of the enemy.)
[Page 12]:Changed 'two' to 'too' (becomes almost too harrowing)
[Page 14]:Added missing quotation marks ("The officers insisted)
Changed kness to knees (against our knees)
[Page 16]:Changed stong to strong (a very strong party)
Changed consequnce to consequence (consequence of the severe)
Added missing quotation marks (old candle-boxes.")
[Page 23]:Changed consience to conscience (a matter of conscience)
[Page 26]:Changed Jeferson's to Jefferson's (the son of Jefferson's)
[Page 33]:Added missing quotation marks (for safe-keeping.")
[Page 46]:Added missing quotation marks ("All that a slave)
[Page 51]:Added missing comma (his or her master, mistress)
[Page 60]:Added missing quotation marks (_at least nine_.")
[Page 85]:A set of quotation marks appears omitted but it was not possible to determine where they were to have been added.
[Page 99]:Changed agreeaable to agreeable (an agreeable novelty)
[Page 137]:Changed 'them-themselves' to 'themselves' (pledge themselves)
Removed stray quotation marks (their qualifications?)
[Page 145]:Removed duplicate word 'been' (to have been the meekest)
[Page 146]:Changed opnion to opinion (influences public opinion)
[Page 157]:Added missing end punctuation (in the year 1734.)
[Page 159]:Changed Geoffrroy to Geoffroy (Lislet Geoffroy)
[Page 183]:Added missing punctuation (to negro property; what would)
[Page 192]:Added missing quotation marks ("among one hundred)
[Page 195]:Added missing quotation marks (your honor," said the Corporal)
[Page 211]:Changed 'to' to 'too' (too much respect)
[Page 216]:Changed onr to our (an allusion to our)