This episode discusses the horrors of slavery in the Caribbean during the 18th century.

Some of the details are very graphic and may be upsetting, particularly for young listeners,

so please do be warned.

Thank you.

For want of dwelling near enough to the blessed truth, I was levied too much into the

nature of the people there, which are masters and mistresses of slaves.

Though I never had nor would have any of my own, but by conversing trading and living

daily amongst them, where there is vast numbers, abundance coming daily to buy goods and

to beg some to steal, we had abundance stolen from us at times, the worth of ten, fifteen

or near twenty shillings at a time, come into the shop, hold droves together, lay the

scheme, I suppose, come by appointment.

When many are come in, they seem in great haste.

One would say, serve me, another, serve me, serve me, come sometimes by twilight and within

night, then was their time.

So when we were in a hurry, one would run away with one thing, one with another, and so

on.

Very much we lost, to be sure.

Sometimes I could catch them and then I would give them stripes sometimes, but I had been

sorry for it many times, and it does grieve me to this day, considering the extreme cruelty

and misery they always live under.

Oh, my heart has been pained within me many times to see and hear, and now, now, now,

it is so.

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