Remarks on the Present State of Our West Indian Colonies: With Suggestions for Their Improvement |
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abandoned advances of money advantage amount appears Benguela British Colonies British Parliament cheap sugar circumstances coast of Africa Colonial taxes commodity competition crime Cuba and Brazil cultivation custom of tattooing effect equal equi estimated gain Exchequer expedient fixed differential duty foreign former slaves free trade free-trade Guiana habits hazards high price honour importation of slave increased Indies industry less levied Loanda Lord Denman Lord John Russell Lord Stanley loss Mauritius means Ministers native chiefs negro nish non-residence number of persons Parliament parties penny the pound period of emancipation perty plan of savings-banks plantation pound cheaper present price of Brazil principal Colonies principle produce profit promoting improvements protecting duty resident proprietors respect restore revenue slave countries slave sugar slave-dealer slave-grown sugars slave-labour slave-trade slavery squatting Sugar Duties Bill tion trade in sugar tribe unremunerative West India Colonies West India planters whilst
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Page 11 - He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself, to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Page 22 - ... his trade. By rising in price, the value of this commodity is altered as compared with other commodities. If no protecting duty is imposed on the importation of a similar commodity from other countries, injustice is done to the producer at home, and not only to the producer but to the country to which he belongs.
Page 16 - ... encouragement you will give will ultimately tend to prove that free-grown sugar can compete favourably with slave-grown sugar, and that you will thus be striking a blow, indirectly but effectually, at the slave-trade, and by those means tend to ameliorate the condition of the slaves themselves. Sir, these are the general grounds on which we still entertain the opinion that though it may be safe with respect to the West India interests to permit a limited and qualified competition of sugar the...
Page 16 - ... will thus be striking a blow, indirectly but effectually, at the slave-trade, and by those means tend to ameliorate the condition of the slaves themselves. Sir, these are the general grounds on which we still entertain the opinion that though it may be safe with respect to the West India interests to permit a limited and qualified competition of sugar the produce of free-labour, yet that it will be dangerous to those interests to admit, as the noble lord proposed at a differential duty of 10*.,...
Page 17 - ... respect to the West India interests to permit a limited and qualified competition of sugar the produce of free-labour, yet that it will be dangerous to those interests to admit, as the noble lord proposed at a differential duty of 10*., only the sugar of Brazil and Cuba, and that it would be inconsistent with the course this country has taken, and the declarations we have made, on the subject of slavery and the slave trade.
Page 8 - These questions now intrude into virtually all of my work, and I do not think it is too much to say that they haunt the contemporary imagination.
Page 23 - Nos . . . primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis; illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper.
Page 16 - Lord proposed at a differential duty of 10s. only the sugar of Brazil and Cuba, and that it would be inconsistent with the course this country has taken, and the declarations- we have made, on the subject of slavery, and the slave trade. I do not wish to provoke any controversy, but merely to state the grounds on which Her Majesty's Government have formed their conclusions, and on which they are prepared to act.