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
... Plantation Hospitals and Nurseries ... 313 321 On the abundance of Fish and Crabs in Jamaica , and Negro methods of catching them 323 On the Decrease of the Slave Population of the Colonies since the Abolition of the Slave Trade ...
... Plantation Hospitals and Nurseries ... 313 321 On the abundance of Fish and Crabs in Jamaica , and Negro methods of catching them 323 On the Decrease of the Slave Population of the Colonies since the Abolition of the Slave Trade ...
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... plantations , would continue to occupy their houses and lands , while the master , having no longer the power of punishing them , would no longer be able to exact payment in labour for the maintenance they derived from his estate ; so ...
... plantations , would continue to occupy their houses and lands , while the master , having no longer the power of punishing them , would no longer be able to exact payment in labour for the maintenance they derived from his estate ; so ...
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... plantations shall cease at once , or be con- tinued for a few years , amidst strife , suspicions , in- surrections , and blood , till the free - born people grow up , when it must of necessity cease , unless the emancipatists can effect ...
... plantations shall cease at once , or be con- tinued for a few years , amidst strife , suspicions , in- surrections , and blood , till the free - born people grow up , when it must of necessity cease , unless the emancipatists can effect ...
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... plantations , for punishing criminal slaves . Twenty years ago , there was scarcely a negro baptized in Jamaica . Twenty years ago , the churches were scarcely at all attended by the slaves . It is now limited to 39 stripes , to be ...
... plantations , for punishing criminal slaves . Twenty years ago , there was scarcely a negro baptized in Jamaica . Twenty years ago , the churches were scarcely at all attended by the slaves . It is now limited to 39 stripes , to be ...
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... to employ the day better than in idling and drink- ing . Now the plantation slaves in Jamaica have all houses of their own , and grounds of their own , were newly imported Africans , maintained with provisions rais- ed Introduction . xxiii.
... to employ the day better than in idling and drink- ing . Now the plantation slaves in Jamaica have all houses of their own , and grounds of their own , were newly imported Africans , maintained with provisions rais- ed Introduction . xxiii.
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