New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . governed other slaves. Of course, he wasmade the subject of great imposition; for the captainwould naturally desire to get as large a sum of moneyas possible for each redemj^tioner, and therefore wouldbe perfectly willing to sell him for a long term. The j5eoj)le who owned redemptioners could sellthem again if they chose ; and it often hapjiened thatsome of them passed into the jiossession of severalfamilies before they finally served out the term forwhich they had been sold. All sorts of people be-came re(kni])tioners, — mechanics
New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . governed other slaves. Of course, he wasmade the subject of great imposition; for the captainwould naturally desire to get as large a sum of moneyas possible for each redemj^tioner, and therefore wouldbe perfectly willing to sell him for a long term. The j5eoj)le who owned redemptioners could sellthem again if they chose ; and it often hapjiened thatsome of them passed into the jiossession of severalfamilies before they finally served out the term forwhich they had been sold. All sorts of people be-came re(kni])tioners, — mechanics, laborers, ami evenprofessional men. Among the ])eople who sokl them-selves into limited slavery there weie schoolmasters,and it is stated that at one time the supply of redemp- 89 tioncr schoolmasters was so great that they becamea drug in the market. In the days before there were many regular schoolsin New Jersey, much of the education must have beencarried on by what we now call private tutors ;. and aschoolmaster who could be bought as if he had been. a horse or a cow was often a very convenient pieceof property. If a family should own a teacher whowas able only to instruct small children, it would bevery easy, when these children grew older and able toundertake more advanced studies, to sell this i)rimaryteacher to some family where there were young pujiils,and buy one capable of teaching higher is said that these redemptioners were often treated 90 much more harshly and cruelly than the negro slaves,and any one who assisted one of them to escape wasseverely punished. There was good reason for thisdifference in the treatment of the two classes of slaves;for a negro was the property of his master as longas he lived, and it was manifestly the interest of theowner to keep his slave in good condition. Rut theredemptioner could only be held for a certain time,and, if his master was not a good man, he would beapt to get out of him all the work that he could during
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