Trust to the people among whom you live for general services, as bringing wood, water, cultivation, reaping, smith's work, carpenter's work, pottery, baskets, &c.

Educated free blacks from a distance are to be avoided: they are expensive, and are too much of gentlemen for your work.

You may in a few months raise natives who will teach reading to others better than they can, and teach you also much that the liberated never know.

A cloth and some beads occasionally will satisfy them, while neither the food, the wages, nor the work will please those who, being brought from a distance, naturally consider themselves missionaries.

Slaves also have undergone a process which has spoiled them for life; though liberated young, everything of childhood and opening life possesses an indescribable charm.