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 xxi
... enactment , ' which would prove equally fatal to the slaves as to their masters ; while it is manifest that , without such interference , slavery would , in due time , become extinct in the colonies , as it did in England , by the ...
... enactment , ' which would prove equally fatal to the slaves as to their masters ; while it is manifest that , without such interference , slavery would , in due time , become extinct in the colonies , as it did in England , by the ...
Page 14
... enactment ; but Mr. Stephen him- self informs us of its " legal origin " in our co- lonies . The bringing labourers or negroes ' from Africa , ' says he , ' was certainly permitted , and even encouraged by parliament ; and in the ...
... enactment ; but Mr. Stephen him- self informs us of its " legal origin " in our co- lonies . The bringing labourers or negroes ' from Africa , ' says he , ' was certainly permitted , and even encouraged by parliament ; and in the ...
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... enacted .'- ' Parliament seems all along to have supposed that there was some known local law in the colonies ... enact that those slaves , or foreigners ( as Mr. S. artfully calls them ) were to be held as slaves in our colonies ! For ...
... enacted .'- ' Parliament seems all along to have supposed that there was some known local law in the colonies ... enact that those slaves , or foreigners ( as Mr. S. artfully calls them ) were to be held as slaves in our colonies ! For ...
Page 27
... enacted ( though Mr. Stephen , professing , as he does , to give a view of the colonial laws , did not find it convenient to speak of enactments so com- pletely subversive of his canon ) that all the negroes shall have , exclusive of ...
... enacted ( though Mr. Stephen , professing , as he does , to give a view of the colonial laws , did not find it convenient to speak of enactments so com- pletely subversive of his canon ) that all the negroes shall have , exclusive of ...
Page 56
... enacts , that slaves sold under writs of Venditione , shall be sold in families . Had this law passed since the agitation of the Registry question , Mr. Stephen , no doubt , would have ascribed it to his thunder , ' as he has done all ...
... enacts , that slaves sold under writs of Venditione , shall be sold in families . Had this law passed since the agitation of the Registry question , Mr. Stephen , no doubt , would have ascribed it to his thunder , ' as he has done all ...
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