Depression in the West Indies Free Trade the Only Remedy
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Coolies have not so many children as the liberated Africans ; they have, consequently, not the same family obligations, and they pay no taxes. The result of this system of coolie importation may be seen in the creation by it of two classes of colonies. We have colonies outwardly prosperous, such as British Guiana and Trinidad, but where all cultivation is practically carried on for absentee proprietors by coolies under indenture, and if there are time-expired coolies working for hire among them..., the wages of these latter will be more or less determined by the rate of re- muneration accorded to the indentured coolies. We have also colonies where Africans are more largely in the majority, but these people refuse to work except irregularly, because the wages offered them are less than they demand. Coolies have also been imported into some of these latter settlements into Jamaica, for instance with the result of yet further de- moralising the African labourers. Had the English Govern, ment left the employers of labour in our West Indian Islands to their own devices, they would undoubtedly have found means to conciliate the liberated Africans in these Islands, because the necessities of both parties would have urged them to re- concile their interests.
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