Edward Crawford wrote: > .... In individual cases >planters, with a crisis of "conscience", may swiftly have had all the >baptisms registered and given their slaves surnames but again, it is only an >impression, large slave owners with hundreds of slaves, seldom did so. I >also have the impression, and I have done no numerical analysis of this, >that the vast majority and perhaps overwhelming majority, of slaves of mixed >race were given surnames.... I should have explained that I am dealing with two lists for the same owner(s), each list being of substantially over 100 slaves. So far I have transcribed a page and a half (47 male slaves). All but 2 (Africans) are Creole in origin; all but 4 (Mulattos) of the Creole are Negro in colour; only one has a single name (Bacchus, Negro, 41, Creole, [son of] Bagnols). I gather that Charles N. Pallmer MP (one of the "owners" by virtue of his marriage) spoke in Parliament in 1816 against Wiberforce's speeches, and was sent supporting views by those opposed to emancipation. He may well have defensively tried to reduce targets for personal attack.