None of them will work for hire, or in any way put themselves under his control, as the parents fear there is some plot laid for making them apprentices, and through that process reducing them to slavery.

He thinks this feeling will continue till the apprenticeship is entirely broken up, and the people begin to feel assured of complete freedom, when it will disappear.
We reached Silver Hill about noon.

This plantation contains one hundred and ten apprentices, and is under the management of a colored man, who has had charge of it seven years.

He informed us that it was under as good cultivation now as it was before emancipation.

His people are easily controlled.