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 xvii
... magistrate could accomplish this in Jamaica , and , as in England , enforce the law on such a point ; the negroes are as yet in a great measure ignorant of the power or the restraints of the law . The authority of the master has ever ...
... magistrate could accomplish this in Jamaica , and , as in England , enforce the law on such a point ; the negroes are as yet in a great measure ignorant of the power or the restraints of the law . The authority of the master has ever ...
Page xxiv
... magistrates are ap- pointed a council of protection , to attend to their complaints . Now the whole evidence and conviction must be transmitted to the governor : and , unless in cases of rebellion , the sentence cannot be carried into ...
... magistrates are ap- pointed a council of protection , to attend to their complaints . Now the whole evidence and conviction must be transmitted to the governor : and , unless in cases of rebellion , the sentence cannot be carried into ...
Page 7
... magistrates , who are ever ready to attend to their complaints . In opposition to that unnatural hatred of their slaves , and contempt for them , with which the white people in the colonies are charged by Mr. Stephen Colonists towards ...
... magistrates , who are ever ready to attend to their complaints . In opposition to that unnatural hatred of their slaves , and contempt for them , with which the white people in the colonies are charged by Mr. Stephen Colonists towards ...
Page 62
... planter in a British colony ; and , what is even ' more strange , out of the four chief magistrates who have presided over that country of freemen by the choice of the people , three have been selected 62 General Washington .
... planter in a British colony ; and , what is even ' more strange , out of the four chief magistrates who have presided over that country of freemen by the choice of the people , three have been selected 62 General Washington .
Page 76
... magistrates , where he confessed having branded the female in question in two places , but disowned any other act of cruelty committed on her , and there was no proof of flagel- lation . Amey was produced in court , and the brands ...
... magistrates , where he confessed having branded the female in question in two places , but disowned any other act of cruelty committed on her , and there was no proof of flagel- lation . Amey was produced in court , and the brands ...
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