Excerpt from Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 11: I. Some Account of American Newspapers, Particularly of the Eighteenth Century, and Libraries in Which They May Be Found, Part I. Alabama-Maryland; II. Extracts From American Newspapers, Relating to New Jersey, Vol; I., 1704-1739
Here we have tales of piracies on the high seas; and on land reports 01 counterfeiting and other crimes, punished by the pillory, the whipping post and branding, discrimination being made against negro slaves, who were summarily tried and burnt, for ofiénces punishable in the case of whites with the lash or the brand. The sparseness of population is indicated by the frequent mention. Of wild animals killed-panthers, bears, deer, etc. The relations between the whites and the Indians appear in an unfavorable light. In these pages. The aborigines are usually mentioned as in a condition of servitude, or in some liscreditable transaction. It should be borne in mind, how ever, that the dusky natives had no newspaper to represent their point of view.
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