But it is now too small.
The apprentices are much more anxious to receive religious instruction, and much more open to conviction, than when slaves.

He finds a great difference now on different plantations.

Where severity is used, as it still is on many estates, and the new system is moulded as nearly as possible on the old, the minds of the apprentices are apparently closed against all impressions,--but where they are treated with kindness, they are warm in their affections, and solicitous to be taught.
In connection with his church, Mr.P.has charge of a large school.

The number present, when we visited it, was about two hundred.

There was, to say the least, as much manifestation of intellect and sprightliness as we ever saw in white pupils of the same age.