We notified all the boats coming up the river not to land at this point.

I did not want these negroes to go off, being satisfied that they were going to their ruin if they did; that they were leaving comfortable homes; many of them had sold their mules or given them away at a mere sacrifice.

One negro sold a mule worth $150 for $15 to get off.

They opened their potato-houses, they opened their corn-cribs and scattered the corn, giving it away to everybody that would offer them five cents a bushel.

I had given two of these people a piece of land, the productions of all of which they were to have for bringing it into cultivation and improving it.