Of these more males were imported than females: they were dissolute too in their morals; they had also diseases peculiar to themselves.

But in those islands where they nearly kept up their numbers, there was this difficulty, that the equality was preserved by the increase on one estate compensating for the decrease on another.

These estates, however, would not interchange their numbers; whereas, where freedom prevailed, the free labourers circulated from one employer to another, and appeared wherever they were wanted.
The second was, that all chastisement of the slaves was cruelty.

But this was not true.

Their owners generally withdrew them from public justice; so that they, who would have been publicly executed elsewhere, were often kept alive by their masters, and were found punished again and again for repeating their faults.