The West India Question: Immediate Emancipation Would be Safe for the Masters;--profitable for the Masters;--happy for the Slaves;--right in the Government;--advantageous to the Nation;--would Interfere with No Feelings But Such as are Disgraceful and Destructive;--cannot be Postponed Without Continually Increasing Danger. An Outline for Immediate Emancipation; and Remarks on Compensation

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Página 1 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Página 10 - Those rights then which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are ; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.
Página 13 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página 8 - ... the mason-work, the remainder felled the timber and worked it in; and the little money that was requisite was supplied, in advance, by the contractor for the church, on the tiles to be furnished for the building. This pottery was completed, a plain structure, but of great solidity, and surprising neatness. Thus had they actually introduced a new manufacture into the country, for which it was previously indebted to our foreign neighbours, or to the home market.
Página 7 - ... man, an African — one of the persons deported from Martinique in 1824. These last had erected a pottery at a short distance from Castries : they took a piece of land, three or four cleared it, others fished up coral, and burnt lime, five or six quarried, and got the stones and performed the...
Página 11 - On a plantation of 288 slaves, in June 1780, viz. 90 " men, 82 women, 56 boys, and 60 girls, by the exertions " of an able and honest manager, there were only 15 births, " and no less than 57 deaths, in three years and three " months. An alteration was made in the mode of govern...
Página 5 - a calculation made under the guidance of M. Coulomb, an able mathematician and experienced engineer, who for many years conducted extensive military works both in France and the West Indies, and who has published the result of his observations.
Página 25 - No commander, or master of a ship trading to Africa, shall by fraud, force or violence, or by any indirect practice whatsoever, take on board or carry away from the coast of Africa, any negro, or native of the said country, or commit any violence on the natives, to the prejudice of the said trade, and that every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit...
Página 10 - Natural allegiance is such as is due from all men born within the king's dominions immediately upon their birth.
Página 10 - ... Grenada had themselves stated, " that though the negroes were allowed only the afternoon of one day in a week, they would do as much work in that afternoon, when employed for their own benefit, as in the whole day when employed in their master's service." " Now after this confession," said Mr. Pitt, " the house might burn all its calculations relative to the negro population. A negro, if he worked for himself, could no doubt do double work. By an improvement, then, in the mode of labor, the work...

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