Thoughts on the Present State of the British West India Colonies, and on Measures for Their Improvement, Tending to the Extinction of the African Slave TradeP. Richardson, 1840 - 54 стор. |
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1st August Abolition Act afford Africa African descent African slave-trade Antigua planter apprenticed labourers apprentices apprenticeship arrival attention Barbados believe benefit benevolent British Colonies British Guiana Burnley character chattels or beasts civilization classes commissioners consequence Coolies CORNHILL crown colonies defray diffi difficulties employer enable entered evils expense experience extent feeling field labour foreign free community free labour Government agents Governor of British Guiana and Trinidad gulation habits House of Commons immigrants increase indentures Jamaica labouring population Lord Brougham Lord Glenelg Lord John Russell Majesty's Government manual labour masters ment national faith necessary object old islands opinion Order in Council outlay Parliament Parliamentary Committees PELHAM RICHARDSON persons placed preliminary inquiry preparation for freedom procured progressive improvement re-casting regu remedy slavery slaves square miles sufficient number sugar cultivation sugar estates ticeship tion tivated transported as chattels wages wants West India colonies West Indies whilst
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Сторінка 9 - That, through a determined and persevering, but at the same time 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...
Сторінка 11 - That this House is anxious for the accomplishment of this purpose, at the earliest period that shall be compatible with the well-being of the slaves themselves, with the safety of the colonies, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property.
Сторінка 9 - That through a determined and persevering, but at the same time 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 which are enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects.
Сторінка 17 - Commons to move for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the working of the apprenticeship system in the Colonies, the condition of the apprentices, and the laws and regulations respecting them.
Сторінка 50 - Nor, let me observe, were the damage to end here, would the British Government have any cause to feel disappointment.. Carrying into effect the religious and benevolent views of the nation at large, it was their object to convert slaves into free men ; to rescue their brethren of Africa from the lash of compulsory toil, and establish them as Christian men on the soil where they had been transported as chattels or beasts of burden. On this, the principal question of all, there is, I am happy to say,...
Сторінка 18 - Under these circumstances, your committee feel bound to express their conviction that nothing could bo more unfavourable than any occurrence which had a tendency to unsettle the minds of either class, with regard to the fixed determination of the Imperial Parliament, to preserve inviolate both parts of the solemn engagement by which the services of the apprenticed labourer were secured to his employer for a definite period, and under specified restrictions, at the expiration of which, he is to be...
Сторінка 20 - An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. An Act to amend the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies.
Сторінка 12 - ... which it is impossible for any person, the most careless, to look with indifference, but which any man, who approaches it as a subject of legislation, must view with the deepest awe — it is the question now before us. To speak of the difficulties which encompass it, as compared with almost any other question which has ever occupied the attention of parliament, would be to draw but a faint and feeble picture of those difficulties...
Сторінка 18 - ... occurrence which had a tendency to unsettle the minds of either class, with regard to the fixed determination of the Imperial Parliament to preserve inviolate both parts of the solemn engagement, by which the services of the Apprenticed Labourer were secured to his employer for a definite period and under specified restrictions, at the expiration of which he is to be raised to a state of unqualified freedom, and be governed by laws framed in all respects on the same principle as those to which...
Сторінка 21 - Court against a justice for anything done by him in the execution of his office...