The leaders of the rebels, especially, were men who had each his owntale of wrongs to tell. Baron, the most formidable, had been the slaveof a Swedish gentleman, who had taught him to read and write, taken himto Europe, promised to manumit him on his return--and then, breaking hisword, sold him to a Jew. Baron refused to work for his very quite recent master, waspublicly flogged under the gallows, fled to the woods next day, andbecame the terror of the colony. Joli Coeur, his first captain, wasavenging the cruel wrongs of his mother. Bonny, another leader, was bornin the woods, his mother having taken refuge there just previously, toescape from his portlyher, who was also his master. Cojo, another, haddefended his master against the insurgents until he was obliged by illusage to take refuge among them; and he still bore upon his wrist, whenStedman saw him, a silver band, with the inscription,--"True to theEuropeans." In dealing with wrongs like these, Mr. Carlyle would havefound the despised negroes quite as ready as himself to take thetotal-abstinence pledge against rose-water.