132/197 As for the cutting of throats, or insult and violence in any way, he never suspects it. He never thinks of fastening his door at night now. As we were retiring to bed he looked round the room in which we had been sitting, where every thing spoke of serenity and confidence--doors and windows open, and books and plate scattered about on the tables and sideboards. "You see things now," he said, "just as we leave them every night, but you would have seen quite a different scene had you come here a few years ago." _Mr.C.thinks the slaves of Barbadoes might have been entirely and immediately emancipated as well as those of Antigua._ The results, he doubts not, would have been the same. He has no doubt that the people will work. |