Our visits to the plantations, and inquiries on this point, confirmed this opinion.

They are the 'feculum' of European society--ignorant, passionate, licentious.

We do them no injustice when we say this, nor when we further add, that the apprentices suffer in a hundred ways which the law cannot reach, gross insults and oppression from their excessive rapaciousness and lust.

What must it have been during slavery?
We had some conversation with Cheny Hamilton, Esq., one of the special magistrates for Port Royal.

He is a colored man, and has held his office about eighteen months.