stood for _free mulatto_, and F.C.W.for _free colored woman_! The gentleman took his knife and cut out the initials; and was then threatened with a prosecution for forging his license.
[Footnote A: Mr.London Bourne, the merchant mentioned in the previous chapter.] It must be admitted that this cruel feeling still exists in Barbadoes.
Prejudice is the last viper of the slavery-gendered brood that dies.

But it is evidently growing weaker.

This the reader will infer from several facts already stated.

The colored people themselves are indulging sanguine hopes that prejudice will shortly die away.

They could discover a bending on the part of the whites, and an apparent readiness to concede much of the ground hitherto withheld.