Yet their spirit of loyalty made them the most highly prized of servants by those who could call it forth.

Of them Christopher Codrington, governor of the Leeward Islands, wrote in 1701 to the English Board of Trade: "The Corramantes are not only the best and most faithful of our slaves, but are really all born heroes.

There is a differance between them and all other negroes beyond what 'tis possible for your Lordships to conceive.

There never was a raskal or coward of that nation.

Intrepid to the last degree, not a man of them but will stand to be cut to pieces without a sigh or groan, grateful and obedient to a kind master, but implacably revengeful when ill-treated.