Said one, "We could never live widout de law; (we use, his very expressions) we must have some law when we free.

In other countries, where dey are free, _don't_ dey have law?
Wouldn't dey shoot one another if they did not have law ?" Thus they reasoned about freedom.

Their chief complaint against the apprenticeship was, that it did not allow them _justice_.
"_There was no law now_." They had been told by the governor, that there was the same law for all the island; but they knew better, for there was more justice done them in some districts than in others.
Some of their expressions indicated very strongly the characteristic kindness of the negro.

They would say, we work now as well as we can _for the sake of peace; any thing for peace_.

Don't want to be complained of to the magistrate; don't like to be called hard names--do any thing to keep peace.