At de break of day all de slaves would git up an' go to work.
De slaves would come to our house for water an' Mistus would see 'em.
When deslaves would try to run away our oberseer would put chains on dere legs wid big long spikes tween dere feets, so dey couldn't git away.
Certainly if the number of purchasers were increased, the number of slaves would be increased.
If he understood that gentleman, he said that the making an enumeration of slaves would make no difference in the expense.
The gentleman from Connecticut had said, that the expense of an annual enumeration of slaves would be great, and that it would fall upon the United States.
With respect, however, to the assertion of Sir William Yonge that a clandestine trade in slaves would be worse than a legal one, he could not admit it.
It was again insisted upon that emancipation was the real, object of the former; so that thousands of slaves would be let loose in the islands to rob or perish, and who could never be brought back again into habits of useful industry.
In the year 1773, William Dillwyn, in conjunction with Richard Smith and Daniel Wells, two of his own society, wrote a pamphlet in answer to arguments then prevailing, that the manumission of slaves would be injurious.
Alderman Sawbridge maintained that, if the abolition passed, the Africans who could not be sold as slaves would be butchered at home; while those who had been carried, to our islands would be no longer under control.
Even those who themselves had no slaves would be affected by it; for though, as we have seen, free labour was by no means ousted by it, it must have helped to create an idle class of freemen, with all its moral worthlessness.
I wuz tole 'fore freedum dat de slaves would git a mule, land en a new suit, but our missis didn't gib us a thing.
Dey would git dere Friday nite early en de slaves woulddance in de grape house dat nite en all day Saturday up ter midnite.
I wuz tole dat sum ob de white peeples wuz so mean ter dere slaves dat de slaves would tek a pot en turn hit down in a hollow ter keep dere whites fum yearin' dem singin' en prayin'.
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