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Page 33 - Estate after estate has passed into the hands of mortgagees and creditors absent from the island, until there are large districts, whole parishes, in which there is not a single proprietor of a sugar plantation resident.
Page 3 - ... 2. That, through a determined and persevering, but judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population ; such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges...
Page 67 - The remote echo it seems is tremendous, though the direct voice may be heard through a speaking-trumpet without alarm. Noise and violence are their weapons in that country ; but here Hush is their watchword ; and every gentleman who presumes to stir these subjects in the House of Commons is usually treated, by crowded West India benches, with rude clamours, such as make it very difficult for him to be heard, and more difficult still for a man of sensibility to maintain the course of his arguments...
Page 40 - ... and no more, clear profit to the planter, being seven per cent. on his capital, without charging, however, a shilling for making good the decrease of the negroes, or for the wear and tear of the buildings, or making any allowance for dead capital, and supposing, too, that the proprietor resides on the spot; for, if he is absent, he is subject in Jamaica to an annual tax of £6 per cent.
Page 33 - Assembly anticipates very shortly the bankruptcy of a much larger part of the community, and, in the course of a few years, that of the whole class of sugar planters.
Page 66 - May 1 823 into effect, at the openin of the next session. But let me, in justice to our friends, show you the extraordinary difficulties and discouragements under which they labour, and from which the loud expression of your voice can alone relieve them. It does not suit the views of our opponents that their case should be discussed at all.
Page 33 - In a report for November 23rd, 1804, is stated that " every British merchant who holds securities on Jamaica estates, is filing bills to foreclose ; .although when he has obtained a decree, he hesitates to enforce it, because he must himself become proprietor of the plantation, of which, from fatal experience, he knows the consequences ;" That " all kind of credit is at an end ;" —
Page 88 - Mahometan faith proscribes it, though in a much milder form, except as a scourge for unbelievers. " What then ! is it pushing religious zeal too far to say, that innocent fellow-creatures ought not to be left in a perpetual hereditary slavery? That unoffending men, women, and children, ought not to be deprived of all civil and human rights, and condemned to toil for life, like cattle, under the whips of the drivers ? Is it enthusiasm to hold, that a slavery so rigorous as to have destroyed thousands...
Page 88 - Servants of God, of every description, my last and surest appeal is made to you. Of whatever faith you are, Churchmen, Dissenters, Catholics, Theists of every kind, if you believe that there is a God, the common Parent of the human race, who delights in justice and mercy, behold a cause that demands your strenuous support. The slavemasters would craftily divide you. They would avail themselves of your theological differences, and especially would persuade you, if they could, that those who earnestly...
Page 11 - The Slave Colonies of Great Britain; or a Picture of Negro Slavery drawn by the Colonists themselves.