Distributive justice occasioned many punishments; as one slave was to be protected against every other slave: and, when one pilfered from another, then the master interfered.

These punishments were to be distinguished from such as arose from enforcing labour, or from the cruelty of their owners.

Indeed he had gone over the islands, and he had seen but little ill usage.

He had seen none on the estate where he resided.
The whip, the stocks, and confinement, were all the modes of punishment he had observed in other places.

Some slaves belonging to his father were peculiarly well off.