Analysis of the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons on the Extinction of SlaveryGreat Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions Society for the Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, 1833 - 213 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 36 筆
第 9 頁
... raised on land allotted for their use , to which was added the usual allowance of pickled fish , being about one salt ... raise for themselves in the other parishes , are chiefly on the Extinction of Slavery . - Evidence of W. Taylor ...
... raised on land allotted for their use , to which was added the usual allowance of pickled fish , being about one salt ... raise for themselves in the other parishes , are chiefly on the Extinction of Slavery . - Evidence of W. Taylor ...
第 10 頁
... raise for themselves in the other parishes , are chiefly yams , plantains , cocoes or eddoes , potatoes , & c . The slaves are not forbidden by law , as Mr. Taylor thinks , to cultivate the sugar cane , but they incur a penalty by ...
... raise for themselves in the other parishes , are chiefly yams , plantains , cocoes or eddoes , potatoes , & c . The slaves are not forbidden by law , as Mr. Taylor thinks , to cultivate the sugar cane , but they incur a penalty by ...
第 15 頁
... raise produce upon it . If put into a situation where the fear of want would bear upon him , and the inducement to work was plain , then he would work . He drew this opinion partly from his knowledge of emancipated slaves , but chiefly ...
... raise produce upon it . If put into a situation where the fear of want would bear upon him , and the inducement to work was plain , then he would work . He drew this opinion partly from his knowledge of emancipated slaves , but chiefly ...
第 19 頁
... raise food enough from their own grounds , they save up their allowance of corn from the master , and with that corn rear large quantities of poultry . " In Clarendon and St. Andrew the slaves of Mr. Wildman were poor , as compared with ...
... raise food enough from their own grounds , they save up their allowance of corn from the master , and with that corn rear large quantities of poultry . " In Clarendon and St. Andrew the slaves of Mr. Wildman were poor , as compared with ...
第 30 頁
... raise barriers to communication which widely separate them from each other . This is an almost necessary , but most unhappy incident of a slave state . - Certainly the desire for freedom does not arise from the slave's connecting it ...
... raise barriers to communication which widely separate them from each other . This is an almost necessary , but most unhappy incident of a slave state . - Certainly the desire for freedom does not arise from the slave's connecting it ...
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Admiral Fleming admitted allowed Anti-Slavery attended attorney Bahamas Baptist Barry believed book-keeper Burge cane cane-hole digging Caraccas cart-whip certainly chapels Christianity church church of England Clarendon colonies colour comforts concubinage crop Cuba cultivated Demerara Duncan emancipated slaves emancipation employed England evidence feeling field flogged free blacks free labour free persons freedom gang Hankey Hayti heard hire increase industrious inflict insurrection island JAMES BECKFORD WILDMAN Kingston knew Knibb known land lashes lived Lord Goderich magistrate manumission master Montego Bay moral Negroes never night opinion overseer parish plantation planters present produced proprietors punishment religion religious instruction resided Shand Simpson Sir CHARLES ROWLEY slave population slavery Society Spanish Town sugar estates Sunday Surinam task Taylor thing Thomas thought tion told Vere visited wages Wesleyan Missionary West Indies whip whites whole Wildman Williams women
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第 136 頁 - ... any person that teaches a person of color, slave or free, to read or write, or causes such persons to be so taught, is subjected to a fine of thirty dollars for each offence; and every person of color who shall teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of thirty dollars or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine lashes ...
第 26 頁 - The provisions for the prevention of excessive labour, contemplate the working the slaves for eleven hours and a half daily out of crop, and place no limit to the continuance of their work during crop, time.
第 9 頁 - ... own provision-grounds, exclusive of Sundays, except during the time of crop, under the penalty of fifty pounds, to be recovered against the overseer or other person having the care of such slaves.
第 208 頁 - Letter from Legion to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, containing an Exposure of the Character of the Evidence on the Colonial Side produced before the Committee.
第 177 頁 - In some particular cases, such for example as the case of rape, such a restriction might secure impunity to offenders of the worst description. The rejection of the testimony of slaves twelve months after the commission of the crime would be fatal to the ends of justice in many cases, nor is it easy to discover what solid advantage could result from it in any case. If the owner of a slave is convicted of any crime on the testimony of that slave, the court has no power of declaring the slave free,...
第 114 頁 - I know we are free. I have read it in the English papers. I have taken an oath not to work after Christmas without pay, and I will not.
第 6 頁 - It has appeared from the report of the Committee that the main points of their enquiry were embraced by the two following propositions, including, in fact, all that Mr. Buxton, in moving for that Committee, had pledged himself, or even thought it necessary to attempt, to prove, viz :— 1. THAT THE SLAVES, IF EMANCIPATED, WILL ADEQUATELY MAINTAIN THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN LABOUR; and 2nd.