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 ter,-all was strange. Taking their place anusp their
 panions in misfortune, they beard them speak o w
 they endured, and saw the,marks of the punishments t|i
 received. Among the "old hands," few had reached advan-,
 years; and of the new ones, many died of grief. The hig
 spirit of the men was bowed down. For the two first years thM
 women were not &tldom stru. k with stt'rility. In earlier time
 the proprietors had not wantl: 1 humanity ; but ri,:hbs had cor
 rupted their hearts now; and giinj tlImselvcs up to ease and
 voluptucusriess, they thought of thi.ir slaes only a siour..es
 income, whence lthe ultmost was to be drawn.
 The evils consequent on slavery aro not lvss,.-n'd by the i1
 coming of one or two stray rays of light. If" th'. slave- become
 conscious of his condition, and aware of the injultit undl
 which he suffers, if he obtains but a a'int idl'a of these things,
 and if the master learns that a dr.sire fur lib-rty ha. arisen i
* the slave's mind, or that free m.n are asserting anti-slaver
 doctrines, then a new element of evil is addLd tl) those which
 before were only too powerLul. I..-pe on one :ide, and distrust
 and fear on the other, create uneasiness and disturlan'e, whiie
 may end in commotion, conoulsion, cruelty, and blood. In the
 agitation of the public mind of the world, which preceded the
 first French R-riv:lution, such t;':-.ling~- could not be excluded
 from any community on earth. They Inr er.d the plantations
 of llayti, and thpy ai.dil in preparing the t.-rrific struggle
 which. through alarm, agitation, an.] alaughtt.r, issued in the
 independence of tb.- i-land.
 The white populati.in was made up of diverse, and in a means
 ure conflicting elemenrs. There were first, the colonifts or plant-
 ers. Of these, some lived in the colony, others lived in France
 The former, either by themselves or by means of stewar-sl, 8su
 perintended the plantations, and consumed the produce in sem
 usual gratification ; the latter, deri ing immense revenues dia
 rectly or indirectly from (heir colonial estates, squandered their
 princely rtlun>-s in the pleasluret and vicies ut' the kIrs imoral
 society of Paris. Pous'..is-.J 'of pul.nc.i, Ihes-c Ien g( neralljl