They did so during slavery, and he had not discovered any change in this respect since emancipation.
Said Mr.Bourne--"The negroes are decidedly less insolent now than they were during slavery." Said Mr.Watkins, of Donovan's--"The negroes are now all _cap in hand_; as they know that it is for their interest to be respectful to their employers." Said Dr.Nugent--"Emancipation has not produced insolence among the negroes." During our stay in Antigua, we saw no indications whatsoever of insolence.

We spoke in a former part of this work of the uncommon civility manifested in a variety of ways on the road-sides.
A trifling incident occurred one day in St.John's, which at first seemed to be no small rudeness.

As one of us was standing in the verandah of our lodging house, in the dusk of the evening, a brawny negro man who was walking down the middle of the street, stopped opposite us, and squaring himself, called out.

"Heigh! What for you stand dare wid your arms so ?" placing his arms akimbo, in imitation of ours.

Seeing we made no answer, he repeated the question, still standing in the same posture.