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 iv
... true interests of humanity . The best part of my life has been spent in daily intercourse with the slaves in Jamaica : they are ignorant , it is true ; but I have witnessed much goodness among them , and in sickness have often been ...
... true interests of humanity . The best part of my life has been spent in daily intercourse with the slaves in Jamaica : they are ignorant , it is true ; but I have witnessed much goodness among them , and in sickness have often been ...
Page vii
... true , scarcely could any sacrifice be too great to wipe from the face of the earth so iniquitous , so dreadful an oppression . Fortunately for humanity , his delineation of the slavery in our colonies , is , as I trust I shall be able ...
... true , scarcely could any sacrifice be too great to wipe from the face of the earth so iniquitous , so dreadful an oppression . Fortunately for humanity , his delineation of the slavery in our colonies , is , as I trust I shall be able ...
Page xvi
... True , they must cultivate their own grounds , but nothing more . The free labourers in England must work or starve , but there would be no occasion that they should work for others , if they had land rent - free , sufficient for their ...
... True , they must cultivate their own grounds , but nothing more . The free labourers in England must work or starve , but there would be no occasion that they should work for others , if they had land rent - free , sufficient for their ...
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... true , are accused of preju- dices , and supposed to receive a bias from self- interest ; but if the whole body of planters ( and the supposition is not very liberal ) were without exception to be regarded as so blinded by preju- dice ...
... true , are accused of preju- dices , and supposed to receive a bias from self- interest ; but if the whole body of planters ( and the supposition is not very liberal ) were without exception to be regarded as so blinded by preju- dice ...
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... true that slavery had not in the West Indies , or in any other country perhaps , its origin in any positive enactment ; but Mr. Stephen him- self informs us of its " legal origin " in our co- lonies . The bringing labourers or negroes ...
... true that slavery had not in the West Indies , or in any other country perhaps , its origin in any positive enactment ; but Mr. Stephen him- self informs us of its " legal origin " in our co- lonies . The bringing labourers or negroes ...
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