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 nursery for black children, 238; a rice-mill, 239; burning stubble, 243; ploughing, 244; food of the slaves, 244; field gangs, 245; task-work, 247; important duties of drivers, 249; limitation of power of punishment, 251; trade on the plantation, 254.

Richmond, Virginia, described, i., 40;  railway economy, 42;   negro funeral, 43;   ludicrous oratory, 44;   Sunday appearance of coloured people, 45;   their demeanour to whites, 47;   "Slaves for sale or hire," 50;   farm on James River, 52;   coal-pit, 54. 'Richmond American,' the, quoted, i., 125, note;  'Enquirer,' ii., 364;   'Whig,' 370. Ruffin, Mr. Edmund, quoted, ii., 303. Runaway slaves, i., 119, 155; ii., 7;  advertisements of, 157;   cure for, ii., 6;   pursuit of one, 20;   hunting with dogs, 120, 122, 178;   stocks for punishment of, 161;   conflict with a runaway, 161, note;   favourite lurking-ground for, 183. Russell, Mr., his 'North America: its Agriculture, &c.,' quoted, ii., 176, note, 182, 252, 256;  mistaken views of, with respect to free and slave labour, 252 et seq.

Sabine River, country on each side described, ii., 24; coarseness of the inhabitants, 25; a night with a gentleman of the country, 25; "figures of speech," 27.

San Augustin (Eastern Texas), i., 374; Presbyterian and Methodist universities merged in a "Masonic Institute," 375.

St. Francisville, ii., 143; neighbouring country described, 145; appearance of the slaves, 146.

Savannah (Georgia), commerce and prospects of, i., 273.

Scripture expressions, their familiar use by the negroes, i., 262; a dram-*seller's advertisement, 263.

Seguin, Dr., on the capacity of the negro, ii., 344.

Separation of North and South inconsistent with the welfare of either, i., 1.

Sermons by negroes, i., 311.

Settlement, negro, described, i., 237.

"Show Plantations," i., 230.

Sickness, real and feigned, of slaves, i., 96, 118; ii., 198, 199.

Skilled labour, negroes employed in, i., 240.

Slavery, Jefferson's opinion on, i., 92; practicability of rapidly extinguishing, 255; cruelty a necessity of, 355; strong opinion against, of a Mississippi planter, ii., 98; of a Tennessee farmer, 140; necessary to produce cheap cotton, ii., 252.

Slaveholders, opinions of, on slavery, i., 53, 60, 332, 354; ii., 92; American, French, and negro slaveowners, 336, 337.

Slave-mart, at Richmond, i., 50; at Houston, ii., 22.

Slaves, liberated, doing well in Africa, i., 92; prospects of those going North, 93.

Slaves, their value as labourers, i., 16, 94; as domestic servants, 125; causes of the high prices given for them, 16; number engaged in cultivating cotton, 17; number annually exported from slave-breeding to cotton States, 58; proportion of workers to slaves maintained, 59; improvement in their conditions, 94; their food and lodging in Virginia, 102, 104; their clothing, 105; subject to peculiar diseases, 122; necessity of humouring them, 128; have no training as children, 131; work accomplished in a given time, 133; "driving," 135; increasing difficulties in their management, 252; instance of their trustworthiness, 259; best method of inducing them to exert themselves, 328; bad effect of their association with white labourers, 330; and of their dealings with petty traders, 331; condition of, on a profitable plantation in Mississippi, ii., 195; worked hardest in the South-west, 202; some nearly white, 210; their religious instruc-*