Category: History - British
The West India Question is gradually narrowing to a point. There seems now to be little difference of opinion in regard to all safe and practicable measures tending to ameliorate the condition of the slaves, though the time and manner of their adoption may be dependent upon lo...
The West India Question is gradually narrowing to a point. There seems now to be little difference of opinion in regard to all safe and practicable measures tending to ameliorat...
8. CHAPTER II.It was to facilitate the accomplishment of this object of amelioration _alone_, that many respectable West India planters in England gave their sanction to the resolution; and i...
9. CHAPTER III.Secondly, By abstracting such a number of efficient hands from an estate, that the remainder are incompetent to carry on its cultivation in an effective manner, or to render its...
10. CHAPTER IV.It is presumed, that the great object contemplated by the British nation is to civilize the blacks living in our colonies. The crime of taking them from their own country is lon...
11. CHAPTER V.The correspondence of Mr. Canning with Mr. Galatin, lately published, evinces plainly the importance which is attached to our transatlantic possessions. It cannot be supposed th...
12. CHAPTER VI.A thousand precedents would never justify a bad measure—it may therefore be deemed superfluous to offer a remark on this head; but as Mr. Canning has argued, that whatever is ad...
13. CHAPTER VII.Whoever notices the levity of manner with which this question is treated, would imagine that our constitution had undergone a change, and that His Majesty’s advisers were reliev...