The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of lawJ. Butterworth and Son, 1824 - Antislavery movements |
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Page 453 - for their services, except food and clothing, and are treated with " kindness or severity, according to the good or bad disposition of their " masters. Custom, however, has established certain rules with regard to " the treatment of slaves, which it is thought dishonourable to violate. * Thus the domestic slaves, or such
Page liii - Blessed are ye when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you
Page 169 - commit the most atrocious cruelties, even to murder his slave, no " free person being present to witness the act. There appears to me a " radical defect in the administration of justice throughout the West Indies, " in whatever case the wrongs done to a slave are under consideration; or " rather, that justice cannot in truth be administered,
Page 310 - The two that were hung up alive, were indulged, at their own request, " with a hearty meal, immediately before they were suspended on the " gibbet, which was erected in the parade of the town of Kingston. From " that time until they expired, they never uttered the least
Page 62 - HE IS ALSO AT ALL TIMES, LIABLE TO BE SOLD BY PROCESS OF LAW, FOR SATISFACTION OF THE DEBTS OF A LIVING, OR THE DEBTS OR BEQUESTS OF A DECEASED MASTER, AT THE SUIT OF CREDITORS OR LEGATEES.
Page 69 - Plantation slaves, not only in the Spanish and Portuguese, but in the French colonies also, are real estate, and attached to the soil they cultivate, partaking therewith all the restraints upon voluntary alienation to which the possessor of the land is there liable; and they cannot be seized or sold by creditors, for satisfaction of the debts of the owner.
Page 75 - Thus the odious severity of the Roman law, " which declared sentient beings to be inter res, is revived " and perpetuated in a country that pretends to Christianity ! " In a few years a good negro gets comfortably established; " has built himself a house, obtained a wife, and begins to " see a young family rising about him. His provision
Page 479 - The house will be able to judge to *' what an alarming extent the distresses of the sugar planters have already " reached, and with what accelerated rapidity they are now increasing, for " the sugar estates lately thrown up, brought to sale, and now in the Court of
Page 452 - It sometimes happens, indeed, when no ships are on the coast, that a *" humane and considerate master incorporates his purchased slaves among ** his domestics; and their offspring at least, if not the parents, become * entitled to all the privileges of the native class.
Page 406 - that if any proprietor of a slave should, by " any contract in writing or otherwise, dispense with the " slave's service, or should be proved before a justice of peace " not to have exercised any right of ownership over such ** slave, and maintained him or her at his own