It is the prevailing impression among whites, colored, and blacks, that open licentiousness cannot long survive slavery.
_Prejudice_ was another of the concomitants of slavery.

Barbadoes was proverbial for it.

As far as was practicable, the colored people were excluded from all business connections; though merchants were compelled to make clerks of them for want of better, that is, _whiter_, ones.
Colored merchants of wealth were shut out of the merchants' exchange, though possessed of untarnished integrity, while white men were admitted as subscribers without regard to character.

It was not a little remarkable that the rooms occupied as the merchants' exchange were rented from a colored gentleman, or more properly, a _negro_;[A] who, though himself a merchant of extensive business at home and abroad, and occupying the floor below with a store, was not suffered to set his foot within them.

This merchant, it will be remembered, is educating a son for a learned profession at the university of Edinburgh.