Mr.H.stated that he had lately purchased a small sugar estate, for which he was obliged to give several hundred pounds more than it would have cost him before 1834.
4.

There is not the least sense of insecurity now.

Before emancipation there was much fear of insurrection, but that fear passed away with slavery.
5.

The prospect for 1840 is good.

That people have no fear of ruin after emancipation, is proved by the building of sugar works on estates which never had any before, and which were obliged to cart their canes to neighbouring estates to have them ground and manufactured.