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When the move- ment had been finally suppressed, the punishments which were Inflicted on the negroes, are described as having been In many cases most barbarous and cruel ; the destruction of human life as having been of the most wanton and unrelenting character. " Of the white * M. Martin, part xliv. P. 45. I 3 ]18 HISTOEY OF THE COLOMAL population probably not twelve persons perished ; of the negroes, there is reason to believe at least fifteen hundred must have been sacrificed. " * After the ...insurrection had been quelled, persecution fell on the Baptist, Moravian, and Wesleyan mis- sionaries, who were accused of having in some mys- terious manner fomented the outbreak. Their chapels were burnt down by infuriated mobs, and violence was done to several of their persons. Some of their number returned to England, where the report they gave of the conduct of the planters and their adherents, tended to inflame the public indignation to a very high degree. Fowell Buxton, the enthusiastic upholder of the cause of negro freedom, about that time asserted publicly, '^ I stake my character on the accuracy of the fact, that negroes have been scourged to the very borders of the grave, uncharged with any crime save that of worship- ping their God.
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