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Show t ..... ~."1.0 ...... --.";"..:;-~· •• •• 22 "After breakfast we drove to l{elley's, one of Lord Sligo's properties.-,Ve saw the people, on this pro· perty, busily engaged in the laborious occupation of holing-a worl< for which ploughing is now pretty generally substituted, in Jamaica. 'I low are you all getting along~' said my companion, to o tall, bright-looking black man, busily engaged with his hoe. 'Right well, massa, rigl1t well,' he replied. 1 I am from America,' said my friend, 1 wiJCI'C there are many slaves: what shall I •ay to them from you 1 shall I tell them that freedom is working well here 1 ' 'Yes, massa,' said he, ' much well under freedomthank God for it.' 'Much well' they were indeed doing, for they were earning a dollar for every hundred cane boles-a great effort certainly, but one which many of them accomplished by four o'clock in the afternoon. ' I-I ow is this? ' asked the same friend, as he felt the lumps or welts on the shoulder of another man. '0, massa,' cried the negro, 'I was flogged when a slave-no more whip now-oil free.' " p. 96. "The prosperity of the planters in Jamaica, must not be measured by the mere amount of the produce of sugar or cofree, as compared with the time of slavery. Even where produce is diminished, prof1t will be increased-if freedom be fairly tried-by the saving of expense. ' I had rather malic sixty tierces of coffee,' said A. B., 'under freedom, than one hundred and twenty under slavery-such is the saving of ! I ' 23 expense, that I make a better profit by it-nevertheless, I mean to make one ltunclt·ed and twenty, as bcfo,. e.' " p. 118. " 'Do you see that excellent new stone wall round the field below us ~' said the young physician to me, as we stood at A. B.'s front door, surveying the delightful scenery.-' That wall could scarcely have been built at all, under slavery, or the apprenticeship; the necessary labor could not have been hired at Jess than £5 currency, or about $13, per chain. Under freedom, it cost only from 83 50 to $4 per chainnot one·third of the amount. Still more remarkable is the fact, that the whole of it was built, under the stimulus of job-work, by an in\'alid negro, who, during slavery, had been given up to n total inaction.' This waS' the sub:~tance of our conversation-the jnformation was afterwards fully confirmed by the proprietor. Such was the fresh blood infused into the veins of this decrepid person, by the genial hand of freedom, that he had been redeemed from absolute uselessness-had executed a noble work-had greatly improved his tnaster's property-and finally, had realised for himself, a hnudsome sum of money. This single fact is admirably and undeniably illustrative of the principles of the case; and, for that purpose, is as good as a thousand." p. 119. "I will take the present opportunity of offering to thy attention, the account of exports from Jamaica, (as exhibited in the return printed for the House of |