A slave, for instance, likes molasses; he steals some; to cure him of the taste for it, his master, in many cases, will go away to town, and buy a large quantity of the _poorest_ quality, and set it before his slave, and, with whip in hand, compel him to eat it, until the poor fellow is made to sicken at the very thought of molasses.

The same course is often adopted to cure slaves of the disagreeable and inconvenient practice of asking for more food, when their allowance has failed them.

The same disgusting process works well, too, in other things, but I need not cite them.

When a slave is drunk, the slaveholder has no fear that he will plan an insurrection; no fear that he will escape to the north.

It is the sober, thinking slave who is dangerous, and needs the vigilance of his master, to keep him a slave.