"Tom is one of the most valuable servants on the place,--it couldn't be afforded, any way.

Besides, what does he want of liberty?
He's a great deal better off as he is." "But he does desire it, very earnestly, and his master promised it," said Miss Ophelia.
"I dare say he does want it," said Marie; "they all want it, just because they are a discontented set,--always wanting what they haven't got.

Now, I'm principled against emancipating, in any case.

Keep a negro under the care of a master, and he does well enough, and is respectable; but set them free, and they get lazy, and won't work, and take to drinking, and go all down to be mean, worthless fellows, I've seen it tried, hundreds of times.

It's no favor to set them free." "But Tom is so steady, industrious, and pious." "O, you needn't tell me! I've see a hundred like him.