In addition to the many difficulties already enumerated, that invested
colonization, there were other deterrent causes only less real. Was it
right to send these newly manumitted slaves off, upon the hazard of
maintaining themselves in the face of difficulties for which they had
had so little training? This was the question for the master. What of
their future in the far away and unknown land? That was the question
for the slave. Then too, there came to both a genuine reluctance to
meet the pain of separation. Of the fact of the existence of a strong
affection between masters and slaves, in a great majority of the homes
in Virginia where the institution of slavery existed, there can be no
question. From the great number of instances illustrating the sorrows
of masters and servants in the hour of separation, we select two.