The Northern States have been much longer settled, and are much fuller of people than the Southern, but have not land in equal proportion, nor scarcely any slaves.

In spite of the indisputable virtues of Antar, in spite of the great services he had rendered the Absians, the chieftains of this tribe still regarded him as merely a common slave and tender of cattle.

Mr. Bowles in his History of Bremhill, makes a few observations suggested by the account in Domesday Book, on the wages, and some of the prices of agricultural produce on the farms where the villani and servi, literally slaves and villans, laboured.

The captain declared stoutly he had no slaves aboard.

Thus in 1831 James L. Pettigru and Langdon Cheves sent from Charleston to Savannah 85 and 64 slaves respectively of ages ranging from ninety and seventy years to infancy, with obvious purpose to develop newly acquired plantations in Georgia.

There he slaved manfully, for which a gold medal was afterward struck for him.

In the county court records prior to 1661 the negroes are called negro servants or merely negroesnever, it appears, definitely slaves.

Setting before him all the hardships they had endured and bringing to his notice any promise he had ever made them they uttered many threats besides, and thought to render him willy-nilly their slave.

This education passed from Greece and Rome to the feudal communities of Europe, where also the warrior caste and the priestly caste were alone held in honour, and where the really useful and working part of the community, though not nominally slaves as in the pagan world, were practically not much better off than slaves, and not more seriously regarded.

They were serfs, that is to say, practically slaves, who had to give up to their masters the greater part of the crops that they raised.

Colored freemen, except in the highest of their social strata, took free or slave wives almost indifferently.

irrevocably her Slave, she began to use him as such, and after many Steps towards such a Cruelty, she at last utterly banished him.