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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Common terms and phrasesabolition of slavery abuse act in aid adequate authority administration of justice admitted amendments ancient Anti-Slavery apprentices apprenticeship system Assembly of Jamaica British act Captain Pringle circumstances clause colonial secretary Committee complain consequences constitutional rights course cruelty delay delinquencies disallowed earnest appeal election emancipated classes emancipated Negroes especially examination exorbitant expired females ference flogging forthwith future governor home government horrors House of Assembly Imperial Act Imperial Parliament Indian Prison Act interfere JAMAICA ASSEMBLY Jamaica legislature labour laws of Jamaica legis legislative functions Lord Glenelg's act Lord Glenelg's bill Lord Sligo mons nuisance parties pass such laws period permanent laws planters political population practice prerogative present pretensions pretext principles Prison Bill prison discipline prison system privilege prorogued protection proved public indignation put an end re-enact real object repugnant resistance sanction secure session shew special magistrates species of bondage stitutional thereupon tion total disregard unceasing object virtually left West Indian Prison Popular passagesPage 8 - their unceasing object had been to frame laws with such adroitness that they might re-enact as much as possible of the ancient system of slavery under a new name. Page 6 - ... introduce novelty. If your argument were to prevail, we should be called upon to inquire in all cases what is a large and what a small addition.] The question is, whether the plaintiff did not substantially refuse to take the sum he has now thought fit to accept. [MAULE, J.— The inquiry you propose, is, whether, under all the circumstances of the case, it was not reasonable that the defendant should pay the larger sum into court, without prejudice to his rights as to being relieved from costs.... Page 5 - ... confinement, the most ordinary sympathies, the most common decencies, the most imperative necessities of humanity, have been systematically outraged by monsters, to whom the " tender mercy " of colonial functionaries has entrusted the administration of these judicial tortures. Women in an advanced stage of pregnancy, mothers with infants at the breast, young girls, sick and aged apprentices of both sexes, have been consigned, on the slightest pretexts, to those dens of outrage and pollution.... Page 10 - and that the same had not and ought not to have the force of law in the island( and that the authorities would not be justified in acting on it. Page 1 - August, 1833, an Act was passed for the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies. Under this Act the name of slave ceased on the 1st of August, 1834; those who previously stood in that relation becoming "apprenticed labourers" to the persons who had been entitled to their services as slaves. Page 8 - Glenelg's act, which they term an " Act dangerous in its tendency to the peace and welfare of this island. Bibliographic information
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