A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies, Or, An Examination of Mr. Stephen's "Slavery of the British West India Colonies": Containing More Particularly an Account of the Actual Condition of the Negroes in Jamaica : with Observations on the Decrease of the Slaves Since the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and on the Probable Effects of Legislative Emancipation : Also, Strictures on the Edinburgh Review, and on the Pamphlets of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Bickell |
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Page vii
... charges the colonists with were true , scarcely could any sacrifice be too great to wipe from the face of the earth so iniquitous , so dreadful an oppression . Fortunately for humanity , his delineation of the slavery in our colonies ...
... charges the colonists with were true , scarcely could any sacrifice be too great to wipe from the face of the earth so iniquitous , so dreadful an oppression . Fortunately for humanity , his delineation of the slavery in our colonies ...
Page viii
... charges which were either without foundation or grossly exaggerated then , were well founded now ! Many of those charges indeed , though they were never before embodied in a systematic form , or stated with so much eloquence , had been ...
... charges which were either without foundation or grossly exaggerated then , were well founded now ! Many of those charges indeed , though they were never before embodied in a systematic form , or stated with so much eloquence , had been ...
Page xii
... charges of cruelty and oppression ; and indeed , in many cases , this alleged feeling of aversion and abhorrence on the part of the whites , is the sole ground for supposing that the charges should be made , and the sole proof of them ...
... charges of cruelty and oppression ; and indeed , in many cases , this alleged feeling of aversion and abhorrence on the part of the whites , is the sole ground for supposing that the charges should be made , and the sole proof of them ...
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... charges ; thus making the credibility of the evidence to depend on its telling against the accused . The colonists , it is true , are accused of preju- dices , and supposed to receive a bias from self- interest ; but if the whole body ...
... charges ; thus making the credibility of the evidence to depend on its telling against the accused . The colonists , it is true , are accused of preju- dices , and supposed to receive a bias from self- interest ; but if the whole body ...
Page 5
... charges and vague declamation , to raise such a flame in the kingdom ? Let such authorities be consulted by those who would form a correct judgment on this matter , and who admit , that when we have to reason 6 Feelings of the Colonists ...
... charges and vague declamation , to raise such a flame in the kingdom ? Let such authorities be consulted by those who would form a correct judgment on this matter , and who admit , that when we have to reason 6 Feelings of the Colonists ...
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