Two girls were brought before Mr.Hill while we were with him, charged with neglect of duty and night-walking.
One of them said her allowance was too small, and she must get food in some other way or starve.
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The apprentices on many plantations have been deprived of several privileges which they enjoyed under the old system.

Nurseries have been abolished, water-carriers have been taken away, keeping stock is restricted, if not entirely forbidden, watchmen are no longer provided to guard the negro grounds, &c .-- petty aggressions in our eyes, perhaps, but severe to them.

Another instance is still more hard.

By the custom of slavery, women who had reared up seven children were permitted to "sit down," as it was termed; that is, were not obliged to go into the field to work.