Dat not true, sar, wid a good massa.

De slabe hab no care and he bery happy.

If all massas were good, and dere were a law dat if a plantation were broken up de slabes must be sold in families together, me tell you dat de life on a plantation a thousand times happier dan de life ob a black man in his own country.

But all masters are not good.

Some neber look after de slabes, and leabe all to overseers, and dese bery often bad, cruel men.
But worst of all is when a sale comes.