[371] These regulations were:
1. The leader of runaway slaves shall be pinched three times with red-hot iron, and then hung.
2. Each other runaway slave shall lose one leg, or if the owner pardon him, shall lose one ear, and receive one hundred and fifty stripes.
3. Any slave being aware of the intention of others to run away, and not giving information, shall be burned in the forehead and receive one hundred stripes.
4. Those who inform of plots to run away shall receive $10 for each slave engaged therein.
5. A slave who runs away for eight days, shall have one hundred and fifty stripes, twelve weeks shall lose a leg, and six months shall forfeit life, unless the owner pardon him with the loss of one leg.
6. Slaves who steal to the value of four rix-dollars, shall be pinched and hung; less than four rix-dollars, to be branded and receive one hundred and fifty stripes.
7. Slaves who shall receive stolen goods, as such, or protect runaways, shall be branded, and receive one hundred and fifty stripes.
8. A slave who lifts his hand to strike a white person or threaten him with violence, shall be pinched and hung, should the white person demand it, if not to lose his right hand.
9. One white person shall be sufficient witness against a slave, and if a slave be suspected of a crime, he can be tried by torture.
10. A slave meeting a white person, shall step aside, and wait until he passes; if not, he may be flogged.
11. No slave shall be permitted to come to town with clubs or knives, nor fight with each other, under penalty of fifty stripes.
12. Witchcraft shall be punished with flogging.
13. A slave who shall attempt to poison his master, shall be pinched three times with red-hot iron, and then broken on a wheel.
14. A free Negro who shall harbor a slave or thief shall lose his liberty, or be banished.
15. All dances, feasts, and plays, are forbidden unless permission be obtained from the master or overseer.
16. Slaves shall not sell provisions of any kind, without permission from their overseers.
17. No estate slave shall be in town after drum-beat, otherwise he shall be put in the fort and flogged.
18. The king's advocate is ordered to see these regulations strictly carried out.—See Knox, "St. Thomas, West Indies," 69-71.
[372] For an interesting sketch of the insurrection see Knox, "St. Thomas, West Indies," 58 et seq. See also The Annals of the Am. Academy of Political and Social Science, XXII, 101.
[373] The whites referred to Sout as an intelligent man and considered him "skilful and successful as a botanist in the use of medicinal plants found in the island." See Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 104.
[374] Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 105.
[375] Knox, "St. Thomas," 84.
[376] Ibid., 84-85.
[377] Ibid., "St. Thomas, West Indies," 111.
[378] Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 35.
[379] Arena, XXVIII, 242-247.