All the license allowed, appears to have no other object than to disgust the slaves with their temporary freedom, and to make them as glad to return to their work, as they were to leave it.

By plunging them into exhausting depths of drunkenness and dissipation, this effect is almost certain to follow.

I have known slaveholders resort to cunning tricks, with a view of getting their slaves deplorably drunk.

A usual plan is, to make bets on a slave, that he can drink more whisky than any other; and so to induce a rivalry among them, for the mastery in this degradation.

The scenes, brought about in this way, were often scandalous and loathsome in the extreme.
Whole multitudes might be found stretched out in brutal drunkenness, at once helpless and disgusting.