He was the first mover in several cruel and rigid municipal regulations in the county, which prohibited slaves from going over a certain number of miles from their master's places on the Sabbath, and from being seen about the town.

He once instigated the authorities of the town where he attended service, to break up a Sabbath-school some humane members of the Methodist and Lutheran denominations had set up to teach the free negroes, lest the slaves should get some benefit of it.
But there was a still wider contrast between my master and his own children, eight in number, when I left him.

His eldest daughter, the flower of the family, married a miserable and reckless gambler.

His eldest son was kind-hearted, and rather a favourite with the slaves on that account; but he had no strength of mind or weight of character.

His education was limited, and he had no disposition or tact for business of any kind.