Such expressions were repeatedly made.

We asked them what they thought of the domestics being emancipated in 1838, while they had to remain apprentices two years longer?
They said, "it bad enough--but we know de law make it so, and _for peace sake_, we will be satisfy.

_But we murmur in we minds_." We asked what they expected to do with the old and infirm, after freedom?
They said, "we will support dem--as how dey brought us up when we was pickaninny, and now we come trong, must care for dem." In such a spirit did these apprentices discourse for two hours.

They won greatly upon our sympathy and respect.

The touching story of their wrongs, the artless unbosoming of their hopes, their forgiving spirit toward their masters, their distinct views of their own rights, their amiable bearing under provocation, their just notions of law, and of a state of freedom--these things were well calculated to excite our admiration for them, and their companions in suffering.