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

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. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... No labour to b dona X And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on plantationsby slaves the crop, not only shall the slaves, as heretofore be e: on (Sundays. Mills not to be worked between 8 p.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Monday, under penally of . 20. Negro grounds to bo inspected. Where not sufficient negro grounds, each negro to receive 3s. 4d. per week, under penalty of . .). from the labour of the estate or plantation on Sundays, but that no mills shall be put about or worked between the hours of seven o'clock on Saturday night and five o'clock on Monday morning, under the penalty of twenty pounds, to be recovered against the overseer or other person having the charge of such slaves. (10) XI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid. That every master, owner, or possessor of any slave or slaves, or his or her overseer or chief manager, shall, under the penalty of ten p vunds, for. each neglect, cause the condition of the negro grounds to be inspected once in every month at least, in order to see that the same are cultivated and kept up in a proper manner, of which oath shall be made, as in this act is hereafter directed. And whereat it may happen, that on some plantations, penns, settlements, and towns, in this island, there may not be lands proper for the cultivation of provisions, or where by reason of long continuance of dry weather, the negro grounds may be rendered unproductive, then, and in that case, the masters, owners, or possessors, do by some other ways and means, make good and ample provision for alt such slaves as they shall be possessed of, equal to the value of three shillings and (bur-pence currency, per week, for each slave, in order that they may be properly supported and...

Excerpt from 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 That of West India slavery. There are many in this country, and by no means in the lowest stations, who never hear the subject mentioned but they have before their minds chains, dungeons, scourging, maiming, wounding, and death. To their terrified imaginations it appears the land of horrors, where cruelty sits in brief authority, and the oppressed drag out a gloomy life in groans and tears, without any of the comforts of exist ence, and of course, without manifesting any signs of enjoyment. These false impressions have'been mainly owing to a class of authors and orators in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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