He said it was vexatious to all parties.
He remarked that he was so well satisfied that emancipation was safe and proper, and that unconditional freedom was better than apprenticeship, that had he the power, he would emancipate every apprentice to-morrow.
It would be better both for the planter and the laborer.
_He thought the negroes in Barbadoes, and in the windward islands generally, now as well prepared for freedom as the slaves of Antigua._ The Governor is a dignified but plain man, of sound sense and judgement, and of remarkable liberality.

He promised to give us every assistance, and said, as we arose to leave him, that he would mention the object of our visit to a number of influential gentlemen, and that we should shortly hear from him again.
A few days after our visit to the Governor's, we called on the Rev.
Edward Elliott, the Archdeacon at Barbadoes, to whom we had been previously introduced at the house of a friend in Bridgetown.

He is a liberal-minded man.

In 1812, he delivered a series of lectures in the cathedral on the subject of slavery.

The planters became alarmed--declared that such discourses would lead to insurrection, and demanded that they should lie abandoned.