These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches.

Was it any wonder that within a few hours the wild rejoicing ceased and a feeling of deep gloom seemed to pervade the slave quarters?
To some it seemed that, now that they were in actual possession of it, freedom was a more serious thing than they had expected to find it.

Some of the slaves were seventy or eighty years old; their best days were gone.

They had no strength with which to earn a living in a strange place and among strange people, even if they had been sure where to find a new place of abode.

To this class the problem seemed especially hard.