Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

CHAPTER XLIV.

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Remarks upon free system--State of affairs before emancipation --Trials and casualties--Improved price of land--Sugar estate during slavery--Benefits of emancipation in the moral state of the colony--Benefits arising to the planter--Pretended illness among the negroes--Propositions in their favour--Decrease of crime--Hopes indulged--"The first of August."