When in the Barbadoes, I was told that on one plantation, in the space of five years, a score of slaves had hanged themselves." "Mr.Atkinson's Indian," said Captain Sewall, "whom he bought of a Virginia ship-owner, did, straightway on coming to his house, refuse meat; and although persuasions and whippings were tried to make him eat, he would not so much as take a sip of drink.

I saw him a day or two before he died, sitting wrapped up in his blanket, and muttering to himself.

It was a sad, sight, and I pray God I may never see the like again.

From that time I have looked upon the holding of men as slaves as a great wickedness.

The Scriptures themselves do testify, that he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity." After the company had gone, Rebecca sat silent and thoughtful for a time, and then bade her young serving-girl, whom her father had bought, about a year before, of the master of a Scotch vessel, and who had been sold to pay the cost of her passage, to come to her.