This was also done to some extent during slavery.

Many of the people, against whom the planters are declaiming as lazy and worthless, have rich grounds of which those planters little dream.
8.

There is no feeling of insecurity, either of life or property.

One may travel through the whole island without the least fear of violence.
If there is any danger, it is from the _emigrants_, who have been guilty of several outrages.

So far from the planters fearing violence from the apprentices, when an assault or theft is committed, they refer it, almost as a matter of course, to some one else.