On many estates the people have refused to labor, and urge objections against the managers, as a reason for so acting.

They remain and will engage to labor, provided the obnoxious parties are removed." How could the people be blamed for refusing 10d.

per day, while on "many properties" they were getting from 2s.6d.to 3s.

4d.?
Such being also the valuation which the masters had uniformly placed upon their time during the apprenticeship?
When the planters found that the free laborers could neither be prevailed upon to labor for half-price nor be driven to excesses by such paltry persecution, they turned their wrath, as had been long their custom, upon the Baptist Missionaries.

Upon Mr.Knibb especially they laid the blame of giving mischievous advice to the peasantry.