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Updated: April 30, 2025
In all their habits they are becoming more settled, and they begin to feel that they have a personal interest in the success of the property on which they live." Mr. Favey.
Favey, Manager of Lavicount's. "In my extensive intercourse with the people, as missionary, I have never heard of an instance of violence or revenge on the part of the negroes, even where they had been ill-treated during slavery." Rev. Mr. Morrish, Moravian Missionary. "Insurrection or revenge is in no case dreaded, not even by those planters who were most cruel in the time of slavery.
S. Bourne, Esq. stated that the expenses on Millar's estate, of which he is manager, had diminished about one third. Mr. Barnard, of Green Castle, thought his expenses were about the same that they were formerly. Mr. Favey, of Lavicount's estate, enumerated, among the advantages of freedom over slavery, "the diminished expense." Dr.
We do not have the trouble to get the people to work, or to keep them in order." Mr. Favey. "Before the abolition of slavery, I thought it would be utterly impossible to manage my people without tyrannizing over them as usual, and that it would be giving up the reins of government entirely, to abandon the whip; but I am now satisfied that I was mistaken.
Favey, of Lavicount's estate. "The most general apprehension prior to emancipation was, that the negroes would not work after they were made free that they would be indolent, buy small parcels of land, and 'squat' on them to the neglect of sugar cultivation. Time, however, has proved that there was no foundation for this apprehension.
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