Some estates had suffered for a short time; there was a pretty general fluctuation for a month or two, the people leaving one estate and going to another.

But this, said Mr.
B., was chargeable to the _folly_ of the planters, who _overbid_ each other in order to secure the best hands and enough of them.

The negroes had a _strong attachment to their homes_, and they would rarely abandon them unless harshly treated.
3.

He thought that the assembly acted very wisely in rejecting the apprenticeship.

He considered it absurd.