A Letter to M. Jean-Baptiste SayHatchard, 1823 - 58 σελίδες |
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A Letter to M. Jean-Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and ... Adam Hodgson Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1823 |
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Σελίδα 57 - Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States.
Σελίδα 8 - Reckon then the interest of the first purchase of a slave, the insurance or risk on his life, his clothing and diet, expenses in his sickness and loss of time, loss by his neglect of business (neglect is natural to the man who is not to be benefited by his own care or diligence), expense of a driver to keep him at work, and his pilfering from time to time, almost every slave being by nature a thief...
Σελίδα 2 - ... slave, is commonly managed by a negligent master or careless overseer. That destined for performing the same office with regard to the free man, is managed by the free man himself. The disorders which generally prevail in the economy of the rich, naturally introduce themselves into the management of the former: the strict frugality and parsimonious attention of the poor as naturally establish themselves in that of the latter.
Σελίδα 48 - Somerset, had established the axiom, that " as soon as any slave sets his foot on English " ground, he becomes free" there were many negroes in London who had been brought over by their masters.
Σελίδα 34 - The brother of a lady of our acquaintance, who had a great distillery, disappeared suddenly, and was pretty easily guessed to have been thrown into a boiling copper by his slaves. We heard another instance, though not from equally good authority, of a lady, now in Moscow, who had been poisoned three several times by her servants.
Σελίδα 41 - ... the abolition of the slave-trade, — Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox. Lord Grenville, Lord Grey, and every other, — scrupled not to declare, from the very first, that their object was, by ameliorating regulations, and more especially by stopping that influx of uninstructed savages, which furnished an excuse for continuing a harsh system of management, and prevented masters from looking to their actual stock of slaves for keeping up their number, to be surely though slowly advancing towards the period when...
Σελίδα 36 - A few cities enjoy the pleasures of life, and exhibit palaces, because whole provinces lie desolate, or contain only wretched hovels, in which you would expect to find bears rather than men.'' Coxe observes, in his journey from Stockholm to Carlscrona, •' After having witnessed the slavery of the peasants in Russia and Poland, it was a pleasing satisfaction to find myself again among freemen, in a kingdom where there is a more equal division of property, where there is no vassalage; where the lowest...
Σελίδα 10 - 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 2 - But though the wear and tear of a free servant be equally at the expense of his master, it generally costs him much less than that of a slave. The fund destined for replacing or repairing, if I may say so, the wear and tear of the slave, is commonly managed by a negligent master or careless overseer.
Σελίδα 25 - ... 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 governing the slaves. The whips were taken from all the white servants. All arbitrary punishments were abolished, and all offences were tried and sentence passed by a Negro court. In four years and three months after this change of government, there were 44 births, and only 41 deaths, of which ten deaths were of superannuated...