I felt myself, for the first time, a freeman on that day.

You cannot imagine the responsibilities and anxieties which were swept away with the extinction of slavery." There were many unpleasant and annoying circumstances attending slavery, which had a most pernicious effect on the master.

There was continual jealousy and suspicion between him and those under him.

They looked on each other as sworn enemies, and there was kept up a continual system of plotting and counterplotting.

Then there was the flogging, which was a matter of course through the island.