The government of slaves was for the ninety and nine by men, and only for the hundredth by laws.  There were injustice, oppression, brutality and heartburning in the regime,—­but where in the struggling world are these absent?  There were also gentleness, kind-hearted friendship and mutual loyalty to a degree hard for him to believe who regards the system with a theorist’s eye and a partisan squint.  For him on the other hand who has known the considerate and cordial, courteous and charming men and women, white and black, which that picturesque life in its best phases produced, it is impossible to agree that its basis and its operation were wholly evil, the law and the prophets to the contrary notwithstanding.

INDEX

Acklen, Joseph A.S.,
  plantation home of
  rules of, for overseers
Africa, West, see Guinea
Agriculture, see cotton, indigo, rice, sugar and tobacco
    culture
Aiken, William, rice plantation of
Aime, Valcour, sugar plantation of
Amissa, enslaved and restored to Africa
Angolas,
  tribal traits of
  revolt of
Antipathy, racial,
    Jefferson’s views on
    in Massachusetts
    in North and South compared
    Northern spokesmen of
Arabs, in the Guinea trade
Asiento
Azurara, Gomez E.

Baltimore, negro churches in
Barbados,
  emigration from,
    to Carolina
    to Jamaica
  founding of
  planters’ committee of
  slave laws of,
  sugar culture in
Belmead plantation
Benin
Black codes,
  administration of
  attitude of citizens toward
  local ordinances
  origin of,
    in Barbados
    in the Northern colonies
    in Louisiana
    in South Carolina
    in Virginia
  tenor of,
    in the North
    in the South
Bobolinks, in rice fields
Bonny
Bore, Etienne de, sugar planter
Bosman, William, in the Guinea trade
Branding of slaves
Bristol, citizens of, in the slave trade
Burial societies, negro
Burnside, John, merchant and sugar planter
Butler, Pierce,
  the younger,
    slaves of, sold

Cain, Elisha, overseer
Cairnes, J.E., views of, on slavery
Calabar, New
Calabar, Old
Cape Coast Castle
Capers, William, overseer
Capital, investment of, in slaves
Charleston, commerce of,
  free negroes in
  industrial census of
  racial adjustments in, problem of
  slave misdemeanors in
  Denmark Vesey’s plot
Churches,
  racial adjustments in,
    rural
    urban
Clarkson, Thomas, views of, on the effects of closing the slave trade
Columbus, Christopher, policy of
Concubinage
Congoes, tribal traits of
Connecticut,
  slavery in,
    disestablishment of
Cooper, Thomas, views of, on the economics of slavery
Corbin, Richard, plantation rules of