The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of practiceJ. Butterworth and Son, 1830 - Antislavery movements |
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admitted alleged allowances anti-slavery apologists authority average Bahamas Barbadoes believe Berbice Bryan Edwards called canes cart-whip cited clothing Collins common corn Council and Assembly crop crop-time cruel degree denarius doubt drivers effect English English peasant estates estimate evidence excess expence extract fact favour field negroes forced labour foreign-fed colonies former volume gang give given Grenada half home-fed colonies horse beans humanity Ibid Indies Jamaica Jamaica Assembly least Leeward Islands less liberal manumission master means morning nature opponents oppression ordinary Osnaburghs overseers parsimony perhaps plantation planters poor slaves pounds Practical Rules Privy Council probably proprietors provision grounds provision-grounds punishment purpose quantity readers reason Report of 1790 respect says scanty shew shewn slave trade slavery statements subsistence sufficient sugar colonies supposed supra testimony tion truth villeins wages weekly West India whip witnesses writers