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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... committed a fault for which he apprehends punishment , to go to some neighbouring overseer , whom he knows to be on good terms with his own overseer , and solicit his mediation for forgiveness . If the fault has been trivial , such as a ...
... committed a fault for which he apprehends punishment , to go to some neighbouring overseer , whom he knows to be on good terms with his own overseer , and solicit his mediation for forgiveness . If the fault has been trivial , such as a ...
Page 20
... committed injustice , and now , with a view to national justice , would repair the wrong , it is for the nation to pay the price of its wrong , and not for the individual who acted in conformity to the law . To fix on the present ...
... committed injustice , and now , with a view to national justice , would repair the wrong , it is for the nation to pay the price of its wrong , and not for the individual who acted in conformity to the law . To fix on the present ...
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... commit the most horrid cruelties ; concludes , of course , that they do ; and proceeds , in his usual style , to execrate the tyrannical oppressors , and invoke commiseration for their victims . We shall not follow him here ; neither ...
... commit the most horrid cruelties ; concludes , of course , that they do ; and proceeds , in his usual style , to execrate the tyrannical oppressors , and invoke commiseration for their victims . We shall not follow him here ; neither ...
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... committed by the slaves , and concealed from the overseer , which cannot so easily be con- cealed from the driver ; against such , of course , he acts as a salutary check . These are the quali- fications required in the headman on a ...
... committed by the slaves , and concealed from the overseer , which cannot so easily be con- cealed from the driver ; against such , of course , he acts as a salutary check . These are the quali- fications required in the headman on a ...
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... committed ; but early on the following morning . There could not , I think , be any good objection to this being made peremptory by law ; nor to the presence of another free person besides the overseer being made neces- sary , as has ...
... committed ; but early on the following morning . There could not , I think , be any good objection to this being made peremptory by law ; nor to the presence of another free person besides the overseer being made neces- sary , as has ...
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