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Common terms and phrasesabolition admitted adopted Africans allowed Anti-Slavery Antigua Assembly attended Bahamas Baptist Barbadoes believe Berbice British Burge cart-whip cause chapel Cheers Christian church clause colonies colonists coloured Committee Crown colonies Cuba cultivation decrease Demerara despatch Ditto duty effect emancipation enactment England estates evidence fact feeling female flogged free persons freedom gentleman give Governor grounds hear heard honourable House of Commons House of Lords inflicted insurrection island Jamaica justice knew Knibb labour land lashes legislation legislature Lord Goderich Lordship magistrate Majesty's Government manumission master Mauritius measures ment missionaries Montego Bay Negroes never offence opinion Order in Council overseer owner parish Parliament plantation planters present principles produce proprietors protector provisions punishment question religion religious instruction resolutions respect Seaford slave population slavery Society sugar Sunday tion Tortola Trinidad wages West Indian West Indies whip whole Popular passagesPage 58 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Page 33 - 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. Page 315 - appointed to consider and report upon the measures which it might be expedient to adopt for the purpose of effecting the extinction of slavery throughout the British Dominions, at the earliest period compatible with the safety of all classes in the colonies, and in conformity with the resolutions of this House, of the 15th of May, 1823. Page 111 - ... with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation, hereby... Page 117 - That it is the opinion of this Committee that immediate and effectual measures be taken for the entire abolition of slavery throughout the colonies, under such provisions for regulating the condition of the negroes as may combine their welfare with the interests of the proprietors. Page 33 - 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. Page 152 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes,' and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. Page 112 - He could devise no better mode than that of compelling the planter to fix a price on the labourer at the time of his apprenticeship, and by enacting, that the wages to be paid by the master should bear such a proportion to the price fixed by him, that for the whole of his spare time, if given to the master, the negro should receive one-twelfth of his price annually. In this way the master and the slave would both act in reference to each other. Page 216 - And whereas it has been found that the practice of ignorant, superstitious, or designing slaves, of attempting to instruct others, has been attended with the most pernicious consequences, and even with the loss of life : Be it enacted, That any slave or slaves, found guilty of preaching and teaching as Anabaptists, or otherwise, without a permission from their owner and the quarter sessions for the parish in which such preaching or teaching takes place, shall be punished in such manner as any three... Bibliographic information |