They associate with the planters, dine with the planters, lounge on the planters' sofas, and marry the planters daughters.

Such intimacies as these, the gentlemen very plausibly argued, could not exist without strongly biasing the magistrate towards the planters, and rendering it almost impossible for them to administer equal justice to the poor apprentice, who, unfortunately, had no sumptuous dinners to give them, no luxurious sofas to offer them, nor dowered daughters to present in marriage.
The gentlemen testified to the industry and subordination of the apprentices.

They had improved the general cultivation of the island, and they were reaping for their masters greater crops than they did while slaves.

The whole company united in saying that many blessings had already resulted from the abolition of slavery--imperfect as that abolition was.

Real estate had advanced in value at least one third.