Apprenticeship was so inconsiderably different from slavery, that it furnished no more satisfactory data for judging of the results of entire freedom than slavery itself.

Neither would he consent to be comforted by the actual results of emancipation in Antigua.
Taking leave of Mr.Barclay, we returned to the Plantain Garden River Valley, and called at the Golden Grove, one of the most splendid estates in that magnificent district.

This is an estate of two thousand acres; it has five hundred apprentices and one hundred free children.

The average annual crop is six hundred hogsheads of sugar.

Thomas McCornock, Esq., the attorney of this estate, is the custos, or chief magistrate of the parish, and colonel of the parish militia.