He remarked particularly that emancipation had been a great blessing to the master; it brought freedom to him as well as to the slave.
A few days subsequent to our visit to Colonel A.'s, the Reverend Mr.
Packer, of the Established Church, called at our lodgings, and introduced a planter from the parish of St.Thomas.The planter is proprietor of an estate, and has eighty apprentices.

His apprentices conduct themselves very satisfactorily, and he had not carried a half dozen complaints to the special magistrate since 1831.

He said that cases of crime were very rare, as he had opportunity of knowing, being local magistrate.

There were almost no penal offences brought before him.

Many of the apprentices of St.Thomas parish were buying their freedom, and there were several cases of appraisement[A] every week.