midnight
He was now placed in a painful situation . All his former friendships , all the solemn promises by which he was bound to his companions in misfortune , forbade him to indulge that delightful feeling of gratitude and affection , which , for the first time , he experienced for one of that race of beings whom he had hitherto considered as detestable tyrants -- objects of implacable and just revenge ! Caesar was most impatient to have an interview with Hector , that he might communicate his new sentiments , and dissuade him from those schemes of destruction which he meditated . At midnight , when all the slaves except himself were asleep , he left his cottage , and went to Jefferies ' plantation , to the hut in which Hector slept . Even in his dreams Hector breathed vengeance . `` Spare none ! Sons of Africa , spare none ! ''