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 4 頁
... Weekly Register . 6. The Rev. JOHN THORP ( p . 167-178 ) , a clergyman of the church of England , who resided in Jamaica two years and three months in 1827 , 1828 , and 1829 , as curate to the Rev. Mr. Trew , of St. Thomas in the East ...
... Weekly Register . 6. The Rev. JOHN THORP ( p . 167-178 ) , a clergyman of the church of England , who resided in Jamaica two years and three months in 1827 , 1828 , and 1829 , as curate to the Rev. Mr. Trew , of St. Thomas in the East ...
第 5 頁
... weeks in 1827 ; and he moreover resided for three years in the Caraccas as a British Consul . 10. The Rev. NATHANIEL PAUL ( p . 229-233 ) , a gentleman of colour , a native of the United States , who resided as a Baptist Mission- ary in ...
... weeks in 1827 ; and he moreover resided for three years in the Caraccas as a British Consul . 10. The Rev. NATHANIEL PAUL ( p . 229-233 ) , a gentleman of colour , a native of the United States , who resided as a Baptist Mission- ary in ...
第 13 頁
... weeks and months together , would remain steadily at labour . Under this system he worked very well as a carpenter , and even took his turn of duty in the boiling house . He had never known an instance of a free black taking the hoe ...
... weeks and months together , would remain steadily at labour . Under this system he worked very well as a carpenter , and even took his turn of duty in the boiling house . He had never known an instance of a free black taking the hoe ...
第 15 頁
... week's rest to recruit their strength , by setting them to clean pastures , and other light work . Mr. Taylor , being asked whether the stimulus of the whip , at present the only stimulus , being withdrawn , and the Negro made free , he ...
... week's rest to recruit their strength , by setting them to clean pastures , and other light work . Mr. Taylor , being asked whether the stimulus of the whip , at present the only stimulus , being withdrawn , and the Negro made free , he ...
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... week almost every slave had done so much extra work as to receive 3s . 4d . , which he paid them , according to agreement . If they had worked in the usual way under the whip they might have finished 120 holes in the course of the day ...
... week almost every slave had done so much extra work as to receive 3s . 4d . , which he paid them , according to agreement . If they had worked in the usual way under the whip they might have finished 120 holes in the course of the day ...
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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.