On the Amelioration of Slavery (Classic Reprint)

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In this speaking of the insurrection at Barbadoes, I have argued as if the statements of the advocates of slavery respecting the causes of it were correct, that is, that the rising proceeded from the evitation of the question of the Registry Bi'll. But it, is far from being proved that this quesnon had more than a partial bearing upon the cause of the commotion. The insar rection was far from being general, and appears to have only taken place on a few estates. What may be the result of farther evidence it would be premature to say. In the mean time the accounts already received contain nothing which renders it necessary to assume that the whole mischief did not originate in a revolt of Mr. Scott's negroes against their immediate masters or managers, excited by some local and peculiar cause; and which in its progress may possibly have been aggravated by the impressions the negroes may have received from the intemperate representations of their masters respecting the tendency of the Registry Bill. Remarks on the in 3urrection in Barbadoes, &c. P. 7.

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