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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... it necessary for the purpose of regenerating agricultural labour among the FREE Negroes which constitute the mass of the population of that once flourishing Colony . APRIL , 1827 . PREFACE . NEVER , perhaps , were mistakes more prevalent.
... it necessary for the purpose of regenerating agricultural labour among the FREE Negroes which constitute the mass of the population of that once flourishing Colony . APRIL , 1827 . PREFACE . NEVER , perhaps , were mistakes more prevalent.
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... perhaps , were mistakes more prevalent upon any subject than they are at present upon that of West India slavery . There are many in this country , and by no means in the lowest stations , who never hear the subject , mentioned but they ...
... perhaps , were mistakes more prevalent upon any subject than they are at present upon that of West India slavery . There are many in this country , and by no means in the lowest stations , who never hear the subject , mentioned but they ...
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... perhaps could be paralleled in any age of the world ; yet all this improvement is denied by Mr. Stephen , and his reasonings founded on the then state of things are now printed as though they were still applicable , and as if charges ...
... perhaps could be paralleled in any age of the world ; yet all this improvement is denied by Mr. Stephen , and his reasonings founded on the then state of things are now printed as though they were still applicable , and as if charges ...
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... of the whole , since his cane fields and expensive manufac- turing establishments could no longer be of any value , when he could no longer get labourers to work in them . Perhaps it will be said , do not the people Introduction . XV.
... of the whole , since his cane fields and expensive manufac- turing establishments could no longer be of any value , when he could no longer get labourers to work in them . Perhaps it will be said , do not the people Introduction . XV.
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... Perhaps it will be said , do not the people in this country work , although free ? and must not the freed negroes in Jamaica also work , to enable them to live ? True , they must cultivate their own grounds , but nothing more . The free ...
... Perhaps it will be said , do not the people in this country work , although free ? and must not the freed negroes in Jamaica also work , to enable them to live ? True , they must cultivate their own grounds , but nothing more . The free ...
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African allowed appear Assembly assize courts attend authority aforesaid Bickell British canes charge churchwardens clause colonists colour committed complaint conviction crime cultivate custos death duty Edinburgh Review emancipation England English evidence exceeding free persons freedom further enacted gaol give hard labour hereby important Indies island Jamaica Joseph Boyden jury land magistrates manner manumission master means ment mother country mulatto negroes never notice oath obeah offence oppression overseer owner paid parish peace penalty person or persons plantation planters population ports possession possessor pounds present Price produce proprietor provost marshal punishment purchase quarter sessions receive religion runaway says sentence shew ships slave code slave law slave or slaves slavery sold special slave court Stephen suffer sugar thereof thing three justices tion trade transportation trial vessels vestry warrant West India whipping white person workhouse workhouse-keeper