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SLAVERY. 



the slave Jeitor becomes responsible to his mas- 

 ter for the work which is to be executed, and 

 is therefore careful that every one should do 

 his duty. It is a remark which is generally 

 made, that the slave feiiores require to be 

 watched, that they may be prevented from 

 being too rigorous towards those whom they 

 are appointed to command ; their behaviour is 

 usually more overbearing than that of free 

 men ; and next to the slaves, the European 

 feitores are the most tyrannical. It is likewise 

 frequently observed that even manumitted Afri- 

 cans, who become possessed of slaves, which 

 occasionally occurs, treat them in a severe and 

 unfeeling manner, that is nothing softened, but 

 rather rendered more violent, by a remembrance 

 of their own sufferings. Experience in trouble 

 too often leads those who have suffered to the 

 infliction of equal or greater hardships, when 

 opportunities for so doing are afforded ; the 

 human being becomes callous *, it is tormented, 

 and tonnents with the same indifference. 



Medical attendance is net so well provided 

 for as it ought, which proceeds rather from the 

 small number of practitioners in the country, 

 than from the negligence of the planters ; in- 

 deed due attention in this respect is so much 

 and so evidently their interest, that this alone, 

 independent of any feelings of humanity, would 

 make them seek every means of obtaining pro- 



