Christopher, St., forty years ago, 302.

Civil society, benefits of, said to be withheld from the Negro slave, 114.

Clothing, allowance of, given to the negroes, 48.

Coasting vessels commanded by slaves, 115.

Collins, Dr., of St. Vincent's, Practical Rules, 299.

Colonial and Roman slavery compared, 31, 214.

Colonies, our West India, represented by Mr. Stephen as a great evil to

the mother country, 305.

Colonists, character of the, given by Mr. Stephen, 195.

Colony trade, remarks on the, 375.

Colour, importance of educating the children of, 118.

Comfortable circumstances of the slaves in Jamaica, their allowances, &c.
48.

Commercial character of sugar estates, how it affects the slaves, 73.
Compensation, right of the colonists to, 14-Mr. Barham on, 16.
Condemned slaves, indemnification to the owners of, 205.

Cooper, Rev. Thomas, 405.

Corporal punishment, 34.

Crabs, abundant in Jamaica, and Negro methods of catching, 323.
Criminal accusations, trial of slaves upon, 197.

Crisis of the Sugar Colonies, a pamphlet, by Mr. Stephen, 308.

Crop-over, or harvest-home, on a plantation, 10.

Cropper, Mr., the calculations of, on the decrease of the slaves, 340.

Cuba, island of, 148-Instance of the superstition of the people in, 149–
Negro provision markets in, 153.

Dallas, Mr., his Negro song, 213.

Decrease of the slave population in the colonies, how to be accounted for,
336.

Defamation of slaves, 103.

Desertion and vagrancy, 168-and going off the island, 170-causes of, 176.
Discretionary power of the Judges, in punishing slaves, how interpreted by
Mr. Stephen, 193.

Dolly, a slave, anecdote of, 273.

Domingo, St., present appearance of, 145-effects of Negro emancipation in,
346-population of, 350-its armed force, 351-wealth and industry of
its inhabitants, 352-exports of, in 1791 and in 1822, compared with
those of Jamaica, 354-tonnage of, 355-value of its exports, 356-
marvellous increase of population in, stated from official reports in the
Edinburgh Review, 371-trade of, 372.

Drink of the Negroes, 179.

Drivers, or Head Negroes, description of the, 38.
Driving system, 308.

Exports and tonnage of Jamaica, 354.

Edinburgh Review, strictures on the, 346, 367, 375-praises Mr. Bickell's

pamphlet, 447.

Education of slaves, 116.

Emancipation, difficulties attending it, and effects that would result from it,
Introd. xiv.-how understood by the Negroes, 241-danger from dis-
cussions on, 243-fatal consequences to the slaves of premature, 251—
of slaves in America, 253- how to be accomplished, 259 — opinion of
the Wesleyan missionaries on the ruinous consequences to be antici-
pated from, 450.

Enfranchisement for ill-treatment, 74.

Englishmen, are they or free Negroes and Mulattoes the best slave-masters?
21-change which they are said to undergo in the colonies, 155-na-
tional humanity of, of how old a date, 208.

Established clergy in the colonies, Mr. Stephen endeavours to excite a pre-
judice against the, 156.

Evidence, best, regarding the state of the colonies, 3—of slaves, on the ad-
mission of, in the courts of justice, 104.

Feelings of the colonists towards the slaves, 6.

Fish, abundance of, in Jamaica, 327-Negro methods of catching, 328.
Free persons, the colonists are falsely accused of reducing to slavery, 224.
Freedom, the presumption of law is in favour of, 275-how understood by
the slaves, 241.

Funerals of the Negroes, 134, 162.

Gardens, negro, description of, 313.

Golden Grove Estate, free Negroes on, 241.

Grape, a slave, how manumitted, 284.

Groundless complaints, slaves may be punished for making, 78-case of

groundless complaint, 82.

Grounds, negro, time allowed to cultivate, 48.

Havannah, commerce of the, 389.

Hayti, article in the Edinburgh Review on the state of, 347.

Hindostan, slavery of, 33, 274.

Holeing a cane piece, 308.

Hospitals and Nurseries on the plantations, 321.

Houses and Gardens of the Negroes, their mode of life, &c. 313.

Illegal importation of slaves, 221.

Improvements in the condition of the Negroes, Introd. xxii.-general im-
provement in the state of society in Jamaica, and its causes, 128.
Indemnification to the owners of condemned slaves, 205.

Jamaica, slaves in, kindly treated and happy, 209-manumission, law of,
considered, 282-population, exports and tonnage of, 354.

Land-crabs and fish in Jamaica, and Negro methods of catching them, 323
-extraordinary production of black crabs in the eastern part of Ja-
maica, 325.

Laws, to what laws the slaves are subject, 167.

Leasing out of slaves, 67.

Les Amis des Noirs, 145, 346.

Manchester, subscriptions to establish a free school for the uneducated
children of colour in the parish of, 120.

Manumission, 275—Colonists unjustly accused of putting restraints on, 279—
manumission law of Jamaica considered, 282.

Markets, provision, of Jamaica, supplied by slaves, 68.

Maroons, though free for ages, have made no advance to civilization, 347.
Marriage of slaves, 101.

Measles, island of Jamaica ravaged by the, in 1820, 344.

Missionaries, 137-obstacles opposed to, 142-Wesleyan Missionaries in
Jamaica, 143, 187, 449.

Mortgage of a West Indian estate does not affect the slaves, 70.

Mutilations, unknown in Jamaica, 77, 195.

Negroes, independent air of the, 51-the colonists charged by Mr. Stephen
with hatred and contempt of, Introd. xi. 6-funerals of the, 134, 162.
Nurseries, plantation, description of, 322.

Obeah, 190.

Obsolete laws, 188-how used by Mr. Stephen, 207.

Onesimus, case of, Mr. Stephen's comments on the, 6.

Origin of slavery in the colonies, and right of the colonists to compensation,
14-Negro idea on,

Overseers, Mr. Bickell's character of them, and reasons why they do not

marry, 428.

Over-working of the Negroes, 320.

Parishes in Jamaica, their extent, and how provided with the means of re-
ligious instruction, 121.

Perjury, how punishable, 191.

Philips, Mary, case of, 276.

Plantation management, 37.

Planters, prosperity of the, how it affects the slaves, 61.

Plantains and Edoes, price of, in Jamaica, 48.

Poison, attempt to murder by, 188.

Population of Jamaica, 354.

Port-au-Prince, trade of, 372.

Potting of sugar on Sunday, 442.

Presumption in favour of freedom, 275.

Property of slaves respected, 45.

Protection the slaves have in the self-interest of their masters, 205.

Provision markets of Jamaica supplied by the slaves, 68.

Punishing, master's discretion in punishing his slaves limited by law, 30.

Punishment corporal, 34—seldom inflicted in Jamaica on the day the crime
has been committed, 45.

Redemption, right of, 254, 267-Spanish law of, considered, 268.
Registry Bill, 221.

Regulations as to food, clothing, time of labour, &c. 26.

Religious instruction of the slaves, 121.

Removal of slaves from one island or colony to another, 65, 304.

Roman slavery, 32—and colonial compared, 31, 214.

Rome and Grenada, 290.

Rum, passion of the Africans for, 343.

Sale of slaves, 56-by the Provost Marshal, 59.

Sectarians, why received in the West Indies with distrust, 158.
Self-defence, on what ground it has been said that the slaves are deprived
of the right of, 110.

Shand, the late John, 214.

Slave-masters, are Englishmen, or free Negroes and Mulattoes the best? 51.
Slaves, sold in families and allowed to choose a master, 55-getting into

fewer hands and concentrating on the plantations, 61-leasing out of,
67-intercourse of, with free persons, 91-on the legal protection of, 93——
178-
not allowed to traffic in the staple of their master's estate, and why,
assembly ofstrange slaves at night, 184-trial of slaves upon criminal accu-
sations, how conducted, 197-good effects of giving them land for their sup-
port, 261-will not often buy their freedom, when able, 271—their wealth,
271-removal of them from one island or colony to another, 65, 304.
Slavery, how aggravated in the British colonies, 20—a constrained servi-
tude, but not a service without wages, 26-hereditary, 87—sources of,
and illegal importation of slaves, 221.

Society, improvement in the state of, in Jamaica, and its causes, 128.

Spanish colonies, state of religion in, 144, 146–Spanish law of redemption
considered, 268.

Spell-keeping, or night-labour on the plantations, 416.

Spirit of West Indian Society, how ascertained by the Edinburgh Review,

367.

Steam engine, negro admiration of the, 239.

Stephen, Mr., consistency of his remarks, 113—his hostility to the estab-
lished clergy, 156-his contradictory statements regarding the people
of colour, 294-founds on old and obsolete laws, 207-while he admits
that he has passed over the recent meliorating acts, 297.

Storm of 1815, 333.

Sunday school for slaves, 123.

Superiority of the white people, how viewed by the Negroes, 239.

Tax upon manumissions in Jamaica, 288.

Taylor, Simon, Esq., anecdote of the late, 53.
Time allowed slaves to cultivate their land, 26.

Trade, colony, remarks on, 375.

Trial of slaves upon criminal accusations, and report of a trial, 197.

United States of America, state of slavery in the, 63.

Vagrancy and theft, 173.

Vegetable life, exuberance of in the tropics, 331.

Washington, General, enfranchised his slaves by will, 62.

Wealth of the slaves, 271.

Wesleyan missionaries, 143, 187, 449.

Whip, used in punishing slaves, 42.

Women, negro, pregnant or having young children, work required of, 318,

433.

Workhouses, 216.

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