The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament, Volume 2 - Softcover

Clarkson M.A., Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1414232837 ISBN 13: 9781414232836

Publisher: IndyPublish, 2004

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... West Indies, it would give weight to.every humane regulation which had been made; by substituting a certain and obvious interest, in the place of one depending upon chances and calculation. An honourable member (Mr. Stanley) had spoken of the impossibility of cultivating the estates there without further importations of Negros; and yet, of all the authorities he had brought to prove his case, there was scarcely one which might not be pressed to serve more or less effectually against him. Almost every planter he had named had found his Negros increase under the good treatment he had professed to give them; and it was an axiom, throughout the whole evidence, that wherever they were well used importations were not necessary. It had been said indeed by some adverse witnesses, that in Jamaica all possible means had been used to keep up the stock by breeding; but how preposterous was this, when it was allowed that the morals of the slaves had been totally neglected, and that the planters preferred buying a larger proportion of males than females! The misfortune was, that prejudice and not not reason was the enemy to be subdued. The prejudices of the West Indiaps on these points were numerous and inveterate. Mr. Long himself had characterized them on this account, in terms which he should have felt diffident in using. But Mr. Long had shown his own prejudices also. For he justified the chaining of the Negros on board the slave-vessels, on account of "their bloody,-cruel, and malicious dispositions." But hear his commendation of some of the Aborigines of Jamaica, "who had miserably perished in caves, whither they had retired to escape the tyranny of the Spaniards. These," says he, "left a glorious monument of their having disdained to...

Edition details

• Publisher: IndyPublish
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1414232837
• ISBN 13: 9781414232836
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248