Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies: With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter MeasureRichard Taylor, 1823 - 60 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 51 - That though the negroes are allowed the afternoons of only one day in every week, they will 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.
Σελίδα 3 - The act of the legislature, entitled 'An act for the encouragement, protection, and better government of slaves,' appears to have been considered, from the day it was passed until this hour, as a political measure to avert the interference of the mother country in the management of slaves.
Σελίδα 17 - In time, having embraced christianity, they raised places of worship of their own, and had ministers of their own from their own body. They led a harmless life, and gained the character of an industrious and honest people from their white neighbors.
Σελίδα 47 - He saw that the negroes, like all other human beings, were to be stimulated to permanent exertion only by a sense of their own interests, in providing for their own wants and those of their offspring. He therefore tried rewards, which immediately roused the most indolent to exertion. His experiments ended in regular wages, which the industry he had excited among his whole gang, enabled him to pay. Here was a natural, efficient, and profitable reciprocity of interests. His people became contented;...
Σελίδα 25 - Cul de Sac, and on the Plantation Gouraud, more than eight months after liberty had been granted to the slaves ? Let those who knew me at that time, and even the blacks themselves, be asked. They, will all reply, that not a single Negro upon that plantation consisting of more than four hundred and fifty...
Σελίδα 39 - of between seven and eight hundred acres has been governed by fixed laws and a Negro-court for about jive years with great success. In this plantation no overseer or white servant is allowed to lift his hand against a Negro, nor can he arbitrarily order a punishment. Fixed laws and a court or jury of their peers keep all in order without the ill effect of sudden and intemperate passions.
Σελίδα 29 - As they were free when they became soldiers, so they continued to be free when they became labourers again. From that time to this, there has been no want of subordination or industry among them. They or their descendants are the persons, by whom the plains and valleys of St. Domingo are still cultivated, and they are reported to follow their occupations still, and with as fair a character as other free labourers in any other quarter of the globe.
Σελίδα 37 - The first life is preparatory to the second, and the second to the third, while the third exists for itself and is without end. The transition from the first into the second and from the second into the third, is narrow and accompanied by pain ; and in both cases some covering or surrounding must be laid aside...
Σελίδα 28 - ... be destroyed by the Blacks. He stated, as another argument against the expedition, that it was totally unnecessary, and therefore criminal; for that every thing was going on well in St. Domingo. The proprietors were in peaceable possession of their estates ; cultivation teas making a rapid progress ; the Blacks were industrious, and beyond example happy.
Σελίδα 17 - ... understood the use of arms. The Government, however, persevering in its original intention, they were conveyed to Halifax, and distributed from thence into the country. Their number, comprehending men, women, and children, were two thousand and upwards. To gain their livelihood, some of them worked upon little portions of land of their own ; others worked as carpenters ; others became fishermen ; and others worked for hire in other ways. In process of time...