His plan was simply to give each slave an ordinary day's work for a task; and after that was performed, the remainder of the time, if any, belonged to the slave.

_No wages were allowed_.

The gang were expected to accomplish just as much as they did before, and to do it as well, however long a time it might require; and if they could finish in half a day, the other half was their own, and they might employ it as they saw fit.

Mr.P.said, he was very soon convinced of the good policy of the system; though he had one of the most unruly gangs of negroes to manage in the whole island.

The results of the experiment he stated to be these: 1.