She purchases provisions of the negroes, and carries them to Kingston, where she exchanges them for pins, needles, thread, dry goods, and such articles as the apprentices need, which she again exchanges for provisions and money.
Mr.Bourne informed us that real estate is much higher than before emancipation.

He mentioned one "pen" which was purchased for eighteen hundred dollars a few years since.

The owner had received nine hundred dollars as 'compensation' for freedom.

It has lately been leased for seven years by the owner, for nine hundred dollars per year.
A gentleman who owns a plantation in Mr.B.'s district, sold parcels of land to the negroes before emancipation at five shillings per acre.

He now obtains twenty-seven shillings per acre.
The house in which Mr.B.resides was rented in 1833 for one hundred and fifty dollars.