Of course, the people refused to receive so paltry a remuneration for their labour, and this has laid the foundation for a course of systematic oppression scarcely conceivable.

Notices to quit were served indiscriminately on every one, old and young, sick and healthy.

Medical attendance was refused, and even a dose of physic from the Estates' hospitals.

Cattle were turned into the provision-grounds of the negroes, thus destroying their only means of support; and assaults of the most wanton and brutal description were committed on many of the peasantry.

On one estate the proprietor and his brother assaulted a young man in the most unprovoked manner.