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Excerpt from Jay's Treaty and the Slavery Interests of the United StatesOf course the negroes thus carried away prior to the sign ing of the treaty of peace were irrecoverably lost to their masters. When the treaty was made, however, there were within the British camps a considerable number of negroes whom Laurens, by his suggested clause, hoped to save from deportation