"Lust," as usual, was "hard by hate." One hears with perfect amazement of the number of slaves in the wealthy houses.

A thousand slaves was no extravagant number, and the vast majority of them were idle, uneducated and corrupt.

Treated as little better than animals, they lost much of the dignity of men.

Their masters possessed over them the power of life and death, and it is shocking to read of the cruelty with which they were often treated.

An accidental murmur, a cough, a sneeze, was punished with rods.