The company was composed of intelligent and pious men;--so manly and dignified were they in appearance, and so elevated in their sentiments, that we could with difficulty realize that they were _slaves_.

They were wholly unreserved in their communications, though they deeply implicated their masters, the special magistrates, and others in authority.

It is not improbable that they would have shrunk from some of the disclosures which they made, had they known that they would be published.

Nevertheless we feel assured that in making them public, we shall not betray the informants, concealing as we do their names and the estates to which they belong.
With regard to the wrongs and hardships of the apprenticeship much as said; we can only give a small part.
Their masters were often very harsh with them, more so than when they were slaves.

They could not flog them, but they would scold them, and swear at them, and call them hard names, which hurt their feelings almost as much as it would if they were to flog them.