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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... received , under unquestionable authority , from Paris , and which will be found exactly to coincide with that which will soon be print- ed under authority of Parliament . The Code Rural was passed by the Legislature of Haiti in May ...
... received , under unquestionable authority , from Paris , and which will be found exactly to coincide with that which will soon be print- ed under authority of Parliament . The Code Rural was passed by the Legislature of Haiti in May ...
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... receive a bias from self- interest ; but if the whole body of planters ( and the supposition is not very liberal ) ... received , is there no alternative for the impartial British public but to listen to their enemies , those party ...
... receive a bias from self- interest ; but if the whole body of planters ( and the supposition is not very liberal ) ... received , is there no alternative for the impartial British public but to listen to their enemies , those party ...
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... Receive him as a brother beloved . How destructive of the Apostle's benevolent design , how inconsistent with the rest of his conciliatory style , would have been this phrase , if One- simus had , like a negro slave , been , from his ...
... Receive him as a brother beloved . How destructive of the Apostle's benevolent design , how inconsistent with the rest of his conciliatory style , would have been this phrase , if One- simus had , like a negro slave , been , from his ...
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... received from the Dutch and other islands was in fact visible on whole districts of the country , not only from the money expended , but in the very names of the spots brought into cultivation . - Speech , House of Commons , Mr ...
... received from the Dutch and other islands was in fact visible on whole districts of the country , not only from the money expended , but in the very names of the spots brought into cultivation . - Speech , House of Commons , Mr ...
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... receives for his services ? The bare means of procuring the necessaries of life , food and raiment , for himself and his family . Of wealth and physical comforts assuredly less falls to his share , than to the plantation labourers of ...
... receives for his services ? The bare means of procuring the necessaries of life , food and raiment , for himself and his family . Of wealth and physical comforts assuredly less falls to his share , than to the plantation labourers of ...
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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