His objections were against any other than Black Christian families being employed in the cultivation of cotton, so that their home life and worship might provide an example to the African peoples and the fear of a new form of slavery being introduced into Africa removed. He explains that he was writing to prevent Buxton being disappointed that they seemed to be doing nothing and to assure him that they were, on the contrary, being most zealous that nothing should be done to delay the cause he had so much at heart.