Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland
CHAPTER XVIII.
Abolition of Negro Slavery--Canning's Resolutions of 1823--Insurrection in Demerara--"Missionary Smith's Case"--Immediate Abolition--Elizabeth Heyrick--O'Connell--Brougham's Celebrated Speech of 1830--Insurrection and Anarchy in Jamaica, in 1832--William Knibb--Parliamentary Inquiry--Buxton--The Apprenticeship Adopted, August, 1833--Result of Complete Emancipation in Antigua--The Apprenticeship Doomed--The Colonies themselves Terminate it, August 1, 1838 199