Let 'em know they are free to run any time, and it jest breaks up their wanting to.

More 'n all, I've got free papers for 'em all recorded, in case I gets keeled up any o' these times, and they know it; and I tell ye, stranger, there an't a fellow in our parts gets more out of his niggers than I do.

Why, my boys have been to Cincinnati, with five hundred dollars' worth of colts, and brought me back the money, all straight, time and agin.

It stands to reason they should.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions.