I hope to conclude with my next. For example, take one case to illustrate the whole. Before liberated, Juba had a wife and eight children, from even to thirty years of age, every one of whom was at labor in the field 237 as a slave. Here are more than one half who will not work in the field. And this one example may suffice for the most querulous on this subject.
Human nature is all the same under like circumstances.
The immutable, unalterable laws which governed or controlled the instincts or impulses of a Hannibal, Alexander, or Napoleon, are the same implanted in the brain and breast of page or footman, be he black or white, circumstances alone making the difference in development according to the individual propensity. As slaves, people have no choice of pursuit or vocation, but must follow that which is chosen by the master. Slaves, like freemen, have different taste and desires many doing that which is repugnant to their choice.