“It is far too much the custom with Europeans in this colony to dwell on the faults and defects of the Africans around them, instead of affectionately, patiently, and steadily, as influenced by the love of Jesus, teaching day by day such as are ignorant, or out of the way, and praying in humility for heavenly help to bring them to a better mind. The opposite habits of resting in mere complaints against them, and treating them in our intercourse, as having little or no hope of their improvement, is, I fear, much calculated to excite a Pharisaic spirit, which contents itself in the thought of being ‘not as other men;’ not so heedless, dull, untractable, and full of deficiencies.

“24th. Many of the Africans want as much instruction about the succession of crops, as they do in letters, or any thing else. With a very little knowledge and care, they might have produce to reap all the year; whereas, at present, many with farms in their possession have still, I believe, their ‘hungry season,’ and their fruitless ground to look upon some part of the year.[…]”