The children and grand-children of Col.

Lloyd were taught in the house, by a private tutor--a Mr.Page a tall, gaunt sapling of a man, who did not speak a dozen words to a slave in a whole year.

The overseers' children go off somewhere to school; and they, therefore, bring no foreign or dangerous influence from abroad, to embarrass the natural operation of the slave system of the place.

Not even the mechanics--through whom there is an occasional out-burst of honest and telling indignation, at cruelty and wrong on other plantations--are white men, on this plantation.

Its whole public is made up of, and divided into, three classes--SLAVEHOLDERS, SLAVES and OVERSEERS.